Creating patient safety: E-Learning modules from the Clinical Human Factors Group (March 2021)

Summary

As part of the Clinical Human Factors Group (CHFG)'s core mission to promote human factors science in education and training, CHFG have produced a series of E-learning modules for healthcare. These modules seek to encourage the positive actions that create patient safety that are relevant to all staff working in healthcare. We use a human factors and ergonomics perspective to show how human performance and safety are affected by the way we behave, communicate and interact at work.

The learning is based around a true story re-created in a new film to show the complexity of how a patient safety incident develops in an everyday scenario. The actors illustrate the subtle behaviours, that we all do some of the time, that give rise to well-documented safety issues, as well as the safety-creating behaviours we want to encourage.

The modules reflect items on the NHS England’s Patient Safety Syllabus.