Being Human in Healthcare Ltd Network Newsletter January 2025
Jen’s MSc News! Congratulations to Dr Jen Blair, our co-director, who graduated from Nottingham with an MSc in Applied Ergonomics and Human Factors, with Distinction! Jen said “I am so relieved to have finished and really pleased to have been awarded a distinction, the icing on the cake! Doing a Masters is never easy, but…
Newsletter September 2024 – Being Human in Healthcare Ltd Network
It’s the end of summer and hopefully most of you will have been somewhere warmer (and drier) over the holidays! Being Human in Healthcare Latest News Congratulations! Our co-director Jess Wadsworth has completed her Chartered Institute for Ergonomics & Human Factors Technical Membership, giving her the post nominals TechCIEHF Spotlight on our Maternity Human Factors…
Being Human in Healthcare Network – Newsletter May 2024
We can’t believe summer is nearly upon us and hope you will have a chance to take some well deserved rest & relaxation over the bank holiday. Latest Being Human News We are delighted to announce that: Mr Alan Parbhoo FRCS(OMFS Gold Medal) MBBS BSc BDS has joined the Being Human Team as a Senior…
Being Human in Healthcare Newsletter Spring 2024
Implementing Human Factors Training & Developing Healthcare Staff Spring is definitely here! We’ve been thinking about how we can spread the word about how central Human Factors are to patient safety and how we can help those of you implementing PSIRF to embed the systems-based approach. One answer is to invest in Frontline staff and…
Safety Culture: What is it and how can we build a Pro-active Safety Culture in the NHS?
“If eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, then chronic unease is the price of safety.” Reason (1997) With hindsight it is almost always possible to identify warning signs which went unheeded. This article discusses how healthcare might implement a safety culture capable of predicting and avoiding accident risks. Introduction There are many different definitions…
TO ERR IS HUMAN: Human Error Time for a rethink? PSIRF & Human Error
Have you ever added milk to someone’s tea, despite them asking for black tea just two minutes beforehand? Have you ever grabbed the wrong bunch of keys as you hurried out of the house, despite knowing that on this day you needed the other bunch? We’ve all done things like this… In practice, have you…