CHFG Blog

  Do you have the skills to help us promote our objectives? Find out about the work of our network of ambassadors, who champion the CHFG manifesto aims to support safety across health and social care and promote human factors science  

Want to build your confidence in applying HF in Healthcare? Join our online CPD sessions to build your expertise. You will hear a short presentation from our featured expert, be part of a group discussion and Q&A, before completing an (optional) practical task...

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Patient Safety. Launched this week, the APPG for Patient Safety will focus on improving patient safety across health and social care. It will work to identify and promote best...

There is a trend in modern organisations to ban the use of TLAs (three-letter abbreviations) in work communications. In human factors terms, this is a Good Thing: abbreviations are divisive – separating and excluding those who don’t happen to be familiar with them;...

I’m delighted to have accepted an invitation to join Clinical Human Factors Group (CHFG) as a Patron. What, you may ask, does a Patron do? Well, as I see it, my job is to lend my support to CHFG, to raise the profile even more, to be an ambassador where it matters...

Specifying, buying and assessing healthcare products presents one of the best opportunities to control risks to patients (and staff) safety. 2019 to 2020 saw 54,812 patient safety incidents identified as being related to medical devices and equipment. This figure is...

"On a winter’s morning in April 2020, we approached the London Excel centre transformed by the pandemic and the predicted first wave into the NHS Nightingale Hospital, London (NGL).  For some of us it was the first time out since lockdown started to join a new team,...

The pandemic magnified human factors and ergonomics issues in healthcare As we grappled with new ways of working, unfamiliar roles and teams, working under intense pressure in newly configured workplaces and if that wasn’t a big enough challenge – the hindrance to...

People with an interest in patient safety read the interim Ockenden report with despair. It was immediately and starkly apparent that it repeated many of the common themes which have emerged in other patient safety investigations. Further, as the report...