Event details
World Patient Safety Day (WPSD), which takes place annually on 17 September, was launched by the WHO in 2018 to raise public awareness, foster collaboration between stakeholders and mobilise global action to improve patient safety.
This year's theme is Safe Care for Every Newborn and Every Child, with the slogan “Patient safety from the start!”, recognising the vulnerability of this age group to risks and harm caused by unsafe care. The WHO calls for urgent action to eliminate avoidable harm in paediatric and newborn care, driving meaningful improvements and reaffirming every child's right to safe and quality care.
To help celebrate this year’s WPSD, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) are hosting this webinar on the importance of system design in helping to ensure safety for neonates and children. This will feature a panel of paediatric surgery consultants, innovators and human factors experts discussing how we can best design systems and built environments to help ensure safety in paediatric surgical care.
The importance of creating a simulated environment to allow people to fail safely and of ensuring appropriate psychological support when they do will be discussed. How to troubleshoot a build as a clinician to identify and ameliorate potential risks will also be covered. Also how we can adopt a multi-factorial system based approach to improving paediatric surgical care will be considered.
The principles discussed will be transferable across all surgical specialties.
Aims
The aim of this webinar is to celebrate World Patient Safety Day and to help participants provide safe surgical care for every newborn and every child.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this webinar, participants will:
- Have a better understanding of World Patient Safety Day and the RCSEd’s commitment to patient safety.
- Appreciate the importance of simulation in learning and innovation, together with the value of being able to fail safely.
- Recognise the importance of appropriate support for staff when developing new services.
- Be better able to identify and ameliorate potential patient safety risks in any new infrastructure build.
- Be more confident in adopting a system wide, human factors approach when designing surgical services for neonates and children.