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    Our heavily curated Instagram society has become very intolerant of error. In an era where everything we present is airbrushed, tweaked, filtered and polished before being released into the wild, we labour under the misapprehension that the real world is similar. We are sadly mistaken. The real world is messy, imperfect and error-prone. In this blog, Niall Downey talks about his book, Oops! Why Things Go Wrong, which explores why error is inevitable, how it affects many different industries and areas of society, sometimes catastrophically, how it is sometimes actually quite efficient from a physiological standpoint and, most importantly, what we can do about it.
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    A 14 minute TEDx talk by Niall Downey, a doctor and pilot, exploring how healthcare could modify aviation's approach to error for use in managing and reducing adverse events to improve patient safety.
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    Aviation underwent a major culture change after the shock of the 1977 Tenerife disaster, which has gradually matured into the successful safety management systems we have today. Has the Hyponatraemia Report in Northern Ireland or the Bawa-Garba case in the UK the potential to be healthcare's turning point and transform our approach to error? What can we learn from aviation to shortcut the learning process? The author of this article is both a doctor and pilot with extensive experience in both industries. Published in Northern Ireland Healthcare Review in 2018.
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    I wrote this editorial for the Journal of Surgical Simulation after delivering the keynote talk at the Homerton Hospital, London Surgical Simulation conference in 2018. It outlines how aviation approaches error and its use of simulation in training to deal with it safely and efficiently. Aviation Safety Management Framework and the extensive use of simulation is a safe, value for money tool.
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    A brief summary produced by Frameworkhealth Ltd of the experiences aviation can share with healthcare from an author who has worked extensively in both. It outlines the three stage model used in Airline Safety Management Systems. Published in Northern Ireland Healthcare Review.
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