Human Factors and Patient Safety for Clinical Leaders - 2-day course

This course has been written and will be delivered by MedLed

MedLed is the healthcare industry’s specialist in creating Safer Healthcare through combining Human Factors and Performance Science. Their wide-angle approach balances the focus of design and people bringing together the best of Human Factors & Ergonomics and Performance Science, along with other complementary disciplines. The  blended approach and diverse team of experts in their field some of whom you'll meet on your course is truly unique. 

The greatest strength of any pre-hospital provider is the people working within it, the vast majority of whom work incredibly hard to ensure that patients remain safe and have positive experiences. However, it is vital to acknowledge the challenges these clinicians work under, time pressures, high stakes, imperfect information and dynamic conditions. It is these challenges that add additional complexity to pre-hospital care and can lead to subsequent error.

Human factors and patient saftey in pre-hospital care will take an iterative approach by describing the conditions and culture that can lead to harm.

This is a two day face to face course deliverd by MedLed offering a deep understanding of what can be learnt and translated, rather than simply transplanted, from across a multitude of industries and environments. This has led to the development of our unique Human Factors For Healthcare approach.

Course objectives

This course will:

• Explore how Human Capabilities and Limitations influence Leadership and Management in healthcare

• Introduce the concept of Systems Thinking and Models of Safety; looking beyond the individual and the flawed concept of human error

• Discuss Human Capabilities & Limitations and how those influence quality and safety of care – how humans can be heroes and hazards

• Unpick the nature of human fallibility and why practice does not always make perfect

• Teach you how to recognise error-provoking conditions and influence your systems of work including the relationship between stress and performance/risk of error

• Present a tangible model for understanding the relationship between our physiological needs and performance; do we set ourselves up to fail?

• Understand strategies to optimise high performing team working with ad hoc teams

• Develop your awareness of how to create an environment of Psychological Safety for your team

This course is suitable for

• Those wishing to gain a greater understanding of human factors and it's application to the pre-hospital environment.
• Clinical staff, doctors, paramedics, and nurses working in or aspiring to work in pre-hospital care
• Aspiring clinical and non-clinical health care professionals
• Those working in or aspiring to work in healthcare leadership roles

More about Medled 

There dedicated team and network of highly skilled associates come from a wide range of industries, including from across Healthcare. This diversity provides a broad perspective on safety and performance.

• Expertise in Human Performance and High Performing Teams is grounded in decades of research and experience in Elite Sport and Performance Psychology.
• Bringing together learning from some of the most globally respected specialists in Human Factors and Ergonomics.
• Teaching and coaching are highly skilled professions in their own right – our training methodology is developed by specialists in these domains. Delivering learning, not instruction.

They have a deep understanding of what can be learnt and translated, rather than simply transplanted, from across a multitude of industries and environments. This has led to the development of their unique Human factors for Healthcare approach.

The trainer for this course is Matthew Thomas – https://www.med-led.co.uk/about/our-team/matthew-thomas/

Lunch and snacks are provided. 

12 CPD points for full course attendance.