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NHS staff to receive ‘air accident’ safety training to reduce patient harm


Frontline NHS staff will be given specialist ‘air accident investigation’ style training to help improve the way the health service learns from patient safety incidents.

Cranfield University, which has been training air, maritime and rail safety investigators for more than 40 years, is to launch the first intensive course for NHS staff responsible for investigating safety incidents in hospitals.

It is part of a growing effort to install a safety science approach to avoidable harm in the NHS, with the service increasingly looking to other industries to adopt new approaches based on the science of human factors and just culture.

Traditionally the NHS has focused on simpler investigations that too often miss systemic causes of mistakes and instead target individual nurses and doctors for blame.

The new one week intensive course, run in partnership with the charity Baby Lifeline, will start in January and will give students a basic grounding in the science of investigation and using real-life actors and a maternity based scenario, show participants how to get to the real causes of what went wrong.

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Source: The Independent, 20 July 2020

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