Our next virtual seminar will be looking at Just Culture and Incident Investigation and will feature two of the authors, Jan Davies and Carmella Steinke, of the new book 'Fatal Solution' , a book which describes "how a healthcare system used tragedy to transform...
“Medical devices can be complex for users to use. This welcome initiative by CHFG brings together the designers of medical devices with users and procurers. Emergo by UL are proud to sponsor this conference”
“Check-6 were proud to have sponsored the CHFG Seminar in Scotland. As a company, we strive with clients to achieve performance excellence in high reliability organisation environments such as surgical theatres. The work that CHFG carry out is invaluable in educating and influencing organisations and government departments”
Despite huge efforts on the part of healthcare professionals to improve patient safety within the NHS, significant barriers remain. Prominent researchers have argued that it is difficult to ascertain whether patients are any safer, even after the many...
The Clinical Human Factors group had a fantastic conference on the 19th October. Professor Pascale Carayon, the author of the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) talked about the development, history and use of SEIPS in...
In order to deliver high-quality patient care, the NHS needs staff that are healthy, well and at work. Looking after the health and well-being of staff directly contributes to the delivery of quality patient care. Poor workforce health has high and far reaching costs...
Date: 3rd December 2019 Time: 0930 - 1630 Venue: Rosalind Paget Room, Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0RN Map Audience: Q Community members Summary The Q community welcomed colleagues from Patient Safety and Human Factors & Ergonomics in...
Venue: Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0RN The CHFG had a fantastic a one day conference looking at how design and procurement in medical devices and systems can proactively improve patient safety. Martin Bromiley OBE kicked off...
Working with the Royal College of Art, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, we will be running a programme of activities seeking to understand the barriers to designing, procuring, and implementing good design that improves patient safety. This event will be by invitation...
Copies of presentations from the CHFG Open Seminar – May 2018
Human factors masterclass aimed at senior leaders within healthcare organisations across the Midlands region and developed with the support and collaboration of the CIEHF, the CHFG and WMPSC.
HFE in Healthcare, Investigation and Education
Date: Wednesday 23rd May 2018.
Venue: Robert Gordon University, Sir Ian Wood Building, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen, AB10 7QB, Scotland
Summary of the event with copies of presentations
An open seminar jointly organised by the Clinical Human Factors Group (CHFG) and West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN) Patient Safety Collaborative
Proactive Approaches to Promoting Safe Healthcare – Open Seminar
13th October 2016