Ep6 The future of safety improvement

Explore the future of safety improvement with episode six of our new podcast series: Conversations in Health and Care Improvement.  Whether you are a healthcare professional, a quality improvement professional or simply passionate about improving health outcomes, listen to this podcast to:

• Understand how the field of safety improvement has evolved over time and where it's heading next.
• Consider how much healthcare can learn from other industries, and how much must differ due to its unique complexity and human-centred nature.
• Explore whether the approach to learning that quality improvement has engendered within health systems is sufficient for us to do this safety improvement work.
• Gain practical advice for teams and organisations who are working towards making systems safer.  

Our guests on this episode are Professor Jane O’Hara, Director of Research at THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute), University of Cambridge and Dr Adrian Plunkett, Consultant paediatric intensivist and founder of Learning for Excellence.

Join a discussion hosted by Dr Amar Shah, Chief Quality Officer at East London NHS Foundation Trust and National Clinical Director for Improvement at NHS England and Pedro Delgado, Vice President at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

A full transcript can be downloaded here: CHCI Transcript Episode 6.pdf

Visit our website to learn more:  https://qi.elft.nhs.uk

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Amar Shah 

Pedro Delgado