Patient Safety Movement webinar: Embracing Human Factors to unleash safety innovation in healthcare (9 May 2022)

Summary

Benjamin King lived 5-days before parents, Jamie Thomas King and Tamara Podemski, had to pull him off life support. Benjamin's parents share their experience, the value of sharing their story with the media and what changes have happened in UK hospitals since to ensure this won't happen to any other family.

The panel discusses the role of human factors and system design and how it can be embraced to ramp up patient safety improvement. Human factors experts across healthcare and aviation will discuss this issue alongside patient advocates who have lost loved ones where the application of principles and methodologies of human factors engineering may have saved their loved ones lives.

Hear from the leadership at Christus Muguerza Hospital Sur in Monterrey, Mexico, about their work to become an HRO Champion.