Elizabeth Witherington
Clinical Assistant; MedicinesEducationGroup Chair
Nottingham University Hospitals
England - East Midlands
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Rachel Reid joined the group Applying behavioural insights in healthcare 7 months ago
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Ann McQueen joined the group Human Factors 7 months ago
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Iain Smith joined the group Human Factors 7 months ago
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Jonty Yazbek joined the group Human Factors 7 months, 1 week ago
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Rebecca Watkins joined the group Human Factors 7 months, 1 week ago
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Martin Hogan joined the group Human Factors 7 months, 1 week ago
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Catherine Kidd posted an update in the group Human Factors 7 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
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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
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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/
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Rachel Trask posted an update in the group Human Factors 7 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
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