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Leading effective multidisciplinary clinical huddles and safety briefings

Clinical huddles, safety briefings and board rounds are now core tools for managing safety, flow and workforce pressures in real time.

Done effectively they:

  • give teams a shared picture of risk
  • surface concerns from all staff
  • improve visible leadership, communication and teamwork
  • proactively improve patient safety in real time
  • help prioritise work and escalation
  • turn “soft intelligence” into concrete actions.

Done badly, they have the potential to become tick-box rituals that waste time, shut down voices and do not result in improvement or change.

This practical masterclass will focus on how to design and lead brief, focused and effective clinical huddles and safety briefings in busy NHS environments. It will explore different types of briefings (start-of-shift, safety huddles, flow huddles, theatre briefs, board rounds and debriefs), and how to make sure they genuinely improve safety, flow and team culture rather than becoming “just another meeting”. The event will also support you to redesign and improve your huddles and briefings for maximum impact.

Through expert input, practical examples and focused exercises you will build the skills and confidence to lead briefings that:

  • run to time
  • are well attended involving the whole multidisciplinary team
  • surface concerns from all staff
  • improve patient safety in real time
  • result in clear, trackable actions.

Register

hub members receive a 20% discount. Email [email protected] for discount code.

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