The Patient Safety: Safer Culture - Safer Systems conference will provide continued professional development to support the target of making our NHS the safest system in the world to receive healthcare.
The programme will help you to develop further knowledge of the patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF), the NHS Patient Safety Strategy and other programmes being introduced to support constructive reviews of circumstances where care does not go as intended, openly - without fear of inappropriate sanction, supportive of those affected, with the guiding principal of improving services.
Our fully CPD Accredited programme of expert speakers will feature an overview of the challenges and opportunities ahead with guidance from organisations such as Patient Safety Learning, Health Innovation Network, Care Quality Commission and NHS Resolution to name a few.
Open Forum Events are delighted to be gaining a reputation for “truly inspirational” health and social care conferences. Our delegates are telling us that they leave our events with “new ideas and approaches” they can "actually apply" within their own organisations.
Join us to Learn more about innovations in patient safety adopted and scaled-up in response to the pandemic that have proved vital in avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions and remote monitoring that must be sustained to cope with the backlog and winter pressure. Hear case studies outlining how NHS Trusts adopted these technologies - such as the highly effective Oximetry @ Home, from concept, to planning and integration. The event aims to improve understanding of human factor interventions in patient safety, hear from organisations providing provision of human factors patient safety training to all team members involved in a project, providing support that enables staff to choose the areas of concern they want to focus on; working together to generate, trial and implement solutions.
Helen is an experienced leader in organisational effectiveness and transformational change. She has held healthcare leadership roles globally with the World Health Organisation(WHO) where she led the global 'Patients for Patient Safety' programme and in the UK, where she serves as Chief Executive of the National Patient Safety Agency. Helen has also held leadership positions at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Parliamentary Health Services Ombudsman and the Charity Commission. Her passion for improved patient safety is informed by personal family insight into the impact of unsafe care and the ineffectiveness of organisational responses to learn from error.
Amongst a number of Health Innovation Network (HIN) contributions to the local and national NHS response to Covid-19, the work of its Patient Safety and Experience team stands out as an example of the positive impact Academic Health Science Networks can have on clinical priorities. The Oximetry @ Home programme enabled patients to remain at home, supported by hospital clinicians rather than than be admitted to hospital for observation in case they deteriorated.
Oximetry @ Home involved deploying personal monitoring tools to people diagnosed with Covid-19 that could spot the signs of deterioration and allow for timely clinical intervention. This new model of care posed unfamiliar challenges for clinicians treating a high-risk group of patients, but proved vital in avoiding unnecessary admissions, enabling hospital resources to be focused on patients with the greatest need and helping patients feel safe at home knowing that they would be admitted to hospital if they needed more intensive interventions.
The HIN was perfectly placed to support the implementation of pathways that helped patients and clinicians make use of the 72,000 oximeters that had been distributed throughout London. After Christmas, with hospitals facing unprecedented pressure during the second wave of covid, the team switched their attention to turning the vision of 'covid virtual wards' into a reality. Working at extreme pace, the team provided project management and implementation expertise to support clinicians to monitor and provide care to Covid-19 patients remotely. At peak times, this innovation supported hundreds of patients to be safely monitored on 'virtual wards' outside of hospital settings.
Jen Gilroy-Cheetham (confirmed)
In the scariest moments of our lives, we need to feel safe. Jen Gilroy-Cheetham’s life changed forever six months after having her second child when she was diagnosed with a rare neuroendocrine tumour and advised she would need to undergo open surgery to have half of her stomach removed. Complications led to a intensely challenging set of circumstances - a full gastrectomy, that Jen, now recovered, shares as her patient experience from a hospital bed, watching all of the healthcare staff around her - actors on a stage - doing what they could to make her feel safe. In reliving her journey, Jen highlights what’s needed within a healthcare setting to deliver patient safety.
Catherine Dale, Programme Director - Patient Safety and Experience, Health Innovation Network (confirmed)
Jen Gilroy-Cheetham, Sharing her patient experience (confirmed)
Speaker TBC
This presentation will explore findings from the 2021 State of Care report - the CQC's annual assessment of health care and adult social care in England. The report examines trends, shares examples of good and outstanding care, as well as highlighting where care needs to improve.
Ted Baker was appointed Chief Inspector of Hospitals at the Care Quality Commission in 2017. He first joined the NHS in 1973 and later, after qualifying as a doctor, worked in hospitals for 35 years in a career encompassing clinical and academic medicine and hospital management. Ted trained as a paediatric cardiologist and was a clinical academic at King’s College, London. He was a pioneer of magnetic resonance imaging of the heart, setting up new programmes in centres both in the UK and the USA. He has had a series of senior clinical leadership roles in two major academic centres and was the driving force behind the establishment of a new children’s hospital in London.
Sharing the recurrent investigative themes and recommendations from NHS Resolution to reduce claims. Gain an understanding of why patients and families claim and what patients and staff want following harm. Hear and access free support materials to improve claims risk management that can be applied locally to support improve both patient and staff safety.
NHS Resolution is an arm’s-length body of the Department of Health and Social Care, providing expertise to the NHS on resolving concerns and disputes fairly, sharing learning for improvement and preserving resources for patient care.
This slot is reserved for organisations looking to engage delegates with services and opportunities that compliment conference presentation and discussion panel topics. If you're interested in delivering a Case Study, contact us on 0161 376 9007.
Professor Ted Baker, Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Care Quality Commission (CQC) (confirmed)
Justine Sharpe, Regional Safety and Learning Lead (London), NHS Resolution (confirmed)
Speaker TBC
We'll be working with venues to ensure lunch at our events is as delicious as ever and caters for a range of dietary preferences - whilst being served in a safe and seamless manner. Some of the new measures we will be introducing to this effect are:
Where possible, we will request food is sourced locally to reduce food miles, use seasonal vegetables, red tractor certified meat and eggs from free range hens.
Patient safety should be a thread of learning that connects all staff working in the NHS, across all disciplines, from apprentice and undergraduate right through to retirement. The NHS cannot expect to achieve improvements in patient safety if it is not embedded within education curriculums and training.
Most harm in healthcare comes from problems within systems and processes that determine how care is delivered. Healthcare Safety Investigations Branch (HSIB) investigators work closely with patients, families and healthcare staff affected by patient safety incidents to identify any factors that have harmed or may do harm to patients, making recommendations to increase the quality of healthcare systems and processes in pursuit of improving patient safety and reducing risk.
Recent investigations undertaken by HSIB include:
The Patient Safety Academy has been formed from collaboration between two research groups in the University of Oxford, with expertise in patient safety, human factors/ergonomics and improvement science; the Quality, Reliability, Safety and Teamwork Unit (QRSTU) and Oxford Simulation Teaching and Research (OxSTaR) Project involves provision of human factors patient safety training to all team members involved in a project. The PSA team provide support which enables the staff to choose the areas of concern they want to focus on, work together to generate potential solutions and then trial these solutions. The result is staff–led projects with improvements which fit their service and with successes and learning they can share with other teams.
This slot is reserved for organisations looking to engage delegates with services and opportunities that compliment conference presentation and discussion panel topics. If you're interested in delivering a Case Study, contact us on 0161 376 9007.
Helen Hughes, Chief Executive, Patient Safety Learning (confirmed)
Dr Sean Weaver, Deputy Medical Director, Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (confirmed)
Helen Higham, Co-Director of the Oxford Patient Safety Academy and Consultant Anaesthetist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (confirmed)
Speaker TBC
Presentation synopsis coming soon...
This slot is reserved for organisations looking to engage delegates with services and opportunities that compliment conference presentation and discussion panel topics. If you're interested in delivering a Case Study, contact us on 0161 376 9007.
Speaker TBC
Although healthcare systems differ from country to country, improving patient safety encounters similar challenges. The NHS can benefit from exploring successful practices from elsewhere in the world and learn from what has not worked so well.
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Academics/Researchers
Anaesthetists
Chairs/Members of CCGs
Chief Clinical Operations Officers
Chief Executives
Chief Medical Officers
Clinical Directors
Clinical Standards & Patient Experience
Directors of Infection Prevention and Control
Directors of Public Health
Directors/Heads of Service Improvement
Directors/Heads of Strategic Development
Directors/Managers of Commissioning
Estate and Facilities Managers
General Practitioners
HCAI Managers
Heads of Charities
Heads of Innovation
Heads of Maternity Services
Heads of Nursing
Heads of Patient Care
Heads of Patient Safety
Heads of Pharmacy
Heads of Quality & Care
Heads of Risk & Compliance
Health & Safety Managers
HR Directors/Managers
Infection Control Leads
Inspection Managers
Medical Directors
Microbiologists
Patient Experience Leads
Patient Safety Managers
Programme Directors
Specialist Nurses
Surgeons
Trust Board Members
Ward Managers
