Cathy Welch
General Practitioner, Remote and Rural, Community Hospital
Arran Medical Group
Scotland
-
Jonty Yazbek joined the group Human Factors 2 months ago
-
Rebecca Watkins joined the group Human Factors 2 months ago
-
Martin Hogan joined the group Human Factors 2 months, 1 week ago
-
Catherine Kidd posted an update in the group Human Factors 2 months, 1 week ago
Dear Human Factors group,
I work in the QI team at Great Ormond St Hospital, and we are starting a project looking at reducing medication errors – this has come out of a number of incidences both internally and externally. We are wanting to take a ‘human factors’ based approach to reducing errors and improving learning from errors. It would be…Read more
-
Hi Catherine!
I like your idea of reducing medication errors, this is something that will benefit us all, specially to prescribers like myself.
I believe that human factors can influence in our prescribing decisions, I have no doubts on it and it would be interesting to explore that into more detail.
I haven’t worked on any similar project, but I…Read more -
Hi Katherine,
I am a neonatal consultant and am human factors and ergonomics trained and we are working on a project to reduce medication errors. I d be interested to collaborate. Please contact me on claudia.chetcutiganado@nhs.net
-
Hi Catherine,
We recently used an AAR to review a medication incident, which was very useful at picking out the learning (including the Human Factors).
If you are not familiar with AAR’s this is a useful site – https://www.its-aar.co.uk/
-
-
Rachel Trask posted an update in the group Human Factors 2 months, 1 week ago
Hi All – I would like to point you towards our Q Exchange project, ‘A Human Factors Approach to Building Safety Culture across boundaries‘, and hope that you will like it. It’s about building a culture of safety across the borders between theatres and ward areas using a Human Factors Simulation approach linked to quality improvement work. I…Read more
-
Omasan Edun joined the group Evaluation 2 months, 1 week ago
-
Maria Dorthea Skov posted an update in the group Evaluation 2 months, 1 week ago
This upcoming Zoom on process documentation may interest some of you here…
How to overcome today’s lack of NHS process documentation to support effective improvement
On Tuesday March 19th 12-1pm @thomasjohnrose will share how to create effective healthcare process documentation to enable more effective improvement, risk assessment and sa…Read more
-
Harry Brackley joined the group Evaluation 2 months, 2 weeks ago
- Load More