This paper aims to present a roadmap for improving fatigue risk management in health and social care to improve patient safety and individual health workers' health and wellbeing.
More work needs to be done to ensure healthcare workers don’t suffer injuries while moving patients, leaving them in so much pain that many want to quit the profession.
Raising the awareness, understanding, and application of Human Factors in healthcare, specifically focussed on Theatre staff (both clinical and non-clinical) in order to improve staff and patients’ safety and wellbeing.
Creating more cost-effective training could help address a shortage of qualified nurses, so is a move towards using immersive virtual reality teaching sessions the answer?
Could a lack of diversity among the body types that medical students experience when they’re learning to carry out examinations have an impact on patient safety?
‘Decision fatigue’ has been blamed for depleting our power to make effective choices but could its impact on the way we think have previously been over estimated?
