Keynote presentation: From patient handling to patient safety.
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Mike Fray, PhD, BSc (Hons), BHSc, FHEA.
Professor of Ergonomics and Assisted Performance
For many years in supporting the use of ergonomics and human factors tools and methods to improve the safety and effectiveness of patient handling methods there was always the challenge of how we can gain traction with the patient safety sector. This presentation will explore a career in patient handling and how recent developments have shown that there are opportunities to make improvements by engaging in the wide range of skills developed in systems thinking, human factors and safety science. The timeline history will cover the volume of evidence that supports assistive devices for patient transfers and assisted mobility and explore with some interactive sessions how systems thinking can inform patient handling how the person by the bedside completing the transfer is rarely the reason for why things go wrong in heath and community care.
The session will describe the development and the delivery of the world leading national project for Patient Safety Specialists in the area for NHS England. The information will cover the breadth of the skill sets provided in the learning syllabus and explain how these might be applicable to the field of patient handling safety. These safety-based approaches can assist with reactive and proactive risk management scenarios. During the session we will engage with the SEIPS models (Carayon et al 2016) and look at an acci-map enquiry, for a well-known patient handling error. The aim of the session will be to raise the awareness of systems solutions for patient handling problems.