Events

The tenth annual Risk and Patient Safety conference offers an important opportunity to learn from the many successful patient safety initiatives being implemented across the UK and internationally. With a focus on governance of safer care across organisations - looking at mental health, social care and community, you will have the opportunity to hear from leading healthcare professionals on their experiences in mental health, social care and community services; integrated risk reduction; personalisation and risk; and improving compliance with proven risk management policy and practice. A series of workshops and masterclasses provide the opportunity for more interactive learning for both beginners and managers.

“In practice, any one guiding value may have to be weighed against one or more of the others, in an open, honest way. For example, safety is an important aspect of a high – quality service, but this may sometimes have to be balanced against self-determination, expressed here as ‘being in control of our lives’. In some situations, safety may be the overriding consideration; in others, the ability of the individual to make their own decisions and feel in control of their life will be more important to their mental health and well-being” New Horizons: Towards a shared vision for mental health: Consultation, Department of Health, July 2009

Choose from over 40 presentations split into three streams incorporating policy updates, case studies and interactive sessions.

Topics include:

• Quality indicators for patient safety: international experience
• Quality Accounts
• Early Warning Systems
• Why are mental health, social care and community services different?
• Managing risk and handover at the boundary
• Identifying, monitoring and preventing ‘Never Events’
• UK patient safety update
• Auditing death to reduce mortality
• Medication errors as a patient safety indicator
• Using Global Trigger tool in investigations and mortality review

Workshops:

• Patient involvement and information for patient safety
• Engaging junior doctors in patient safety
• Lean and patient safety
• Risk and patient safety in primary care
• Commissioning for patient safety

PLUS: poster displays will take place in all breaks, with presenters available to talk about their displays and answer delegate’s questions

Speakers include:

• Stephen Ramsden Chief Executive Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust and Chair Core Team National Patient Safety First Campaign
• Baroness Barbara Young Chair The Care Quality Commission
• Jim Easton Chair The Patient Safety Federation and Chief Executive NHS South Central
• Professor Ross Baker Co Chair The WHO Working Group on Patient Safety Methods and Measures and Chair Research and
• Evaluation Committee of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute
  
• Sir Neil McKay Chief Executive NHS East of England
• Professor DK Theo Raynor Professor of Pharmacy Practice University of Leeds and Executive Chairman LUTO Research Ltd

Related links.....

• Care Quality Commission
  
• High Quality Care for All
  
• Department of Health – Patient Safety
  
• National Patient Safety Agency
  
• National Patient Safety Foundation, America

An IHM recognised conference and CPD approval to be sought

To download a copy of the conference programme and to book online, please click here.

For more information contact Hanisha on 020 8541 1399 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it