Members of our Healthcare Sector Group reveal how they’ve been working with the NHS and Health Education England to bring a human factors perspective to the design of new community diagnostic centres.
This course is designed to introduce the science of Human Factors and how it can improve quality and safety in areas such as medication safety, teamwork, device design and analysing adverse incidents.
Women are less likely to be given painkillers and face a longer wait to be seen by hospital doctors, according to new research into gender bias and how patients are viewed by medics
A Systems Approach to investigating and learning from patient safety incident course has been designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills required to take a systems approach to learning responses including investigations.
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.
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