HSJ Webinar: Chief executive of Great Ormond Street Foundation Trust on digital technology and patient safety (8 December 2020)

Summary

The panel of this HSJ webinar explored how digital solutions might help clinicians improve patient safety and what barriers there might be along the way.

In a debate chaired by HSJ contributor Claire Read, the panel explored how digital solutions might help clinicians improve patient safety and what barriers there might be along the way.  

Content

The issue of safety is – rightly – never far from the headlines, and that includes in the midst of a pandemic. Despite scandals over quality of care in recent years, it is clear that embedding a strong culture of safety throughout the health service is a constant and continuing mission

Matthew Shaw – who is Great Ormond Street's former medical director as well as its current chief executive – joined the debate exploring whether digital technology can help embed a strong patient safety culture.  

Joining Mr Shaw on the panel were Adam Thomas, chief information officer at The Dudley Group Foundation Trust; and John Zaleski, head of clinical informatics at Capsule Technologies, which supported the webinar.  

The on-demand link to access the webinar is here.