The 9th annual risk and patient safety conference offers an important opportunity to learn from the many successful patient safety initiatives being implemented across the UK and internationally.
In addition to the fundamental areas associated with risk management - risk assessment, clinical incident reporting and root cause analysis - the conference includes a series of NEW focus issues.
Focus areas:
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Sustaining patient safety improvements
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Reducing avoidable mortality and morbidity
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Improving patient safety at the boundary
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Emergency planning and managing serious untoward incidents
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Standards, performance and board assurance
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Learning from outside the NHS: emerging methodologies
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Improving reliability and reducing variability
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Delivering rapid patient safety improvement and change
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Lean thinking delivering patient safety
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Education and training for risk management
PLUS a series of workshops provide the opportunity for more interactive learning:
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The basic principals and tools for patient safety
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Risk and patient safety manager's challenge
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Legal workshop
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Undertaking a patient safety culture self assessment
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Improving patient safety in primary care
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Involving patients in patient safety
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Patient safety trigger tools and side effects
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Statistical techniques for risk management and patient safety
Keynote speakers:
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Diane Pinakiewicz - President, The National Patient Safety Foundation, USA
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Stephen Ramsden - Chief Executive, Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust and Chair, National Patient Safety Campaign
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Stephen Thornton - Member, National Patient Safety Forum and Chief Executive, The Health Foundation
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Professor Sir Brian Jarman - Director The Doctor Foster Unit, Imperial College London
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Margaret Murphy - Steering Group Member, Patients for Patient Safety, World Alliance for Patient Safety, WHO
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