Safety Events
Forthcoming Safety Events
Safer Care in Emergency Medicine Workshop - Spring 2012
This workshop will follow on from the event on 2 September 2011, where participants will be invited to submit in advance an initiative that they have undertaken as a result of their incident analysis and the evaluation of the impact on the department. This will allow the meeting to share learning from each other short presentations (20 mins each including questions) will be commissioned from departments. A date will be announced shortly.
Previous Safety Events
CEM & IFEM Symposium: Quality & Safety in Emergency Care
This event was held on Tuesday 15 & Wednesday 16 November at the British Museum. Presentations will be made available in due course
Safer Care in Emergency Medicine Workshop: Understanding when things go wrong
This event took place on Friday 2 September 2011 and explored how to maximise learning from unforeseen events. You can download the speaker presentations below (please note some of the files are large and may be slow to download):
Introduction - Ruth Brown (PDF)
When things go wrong: starting the learning - Carole Gavin (ZIP)
Completing a root cause analysis of an incident Sue Robinson (ZIP)
Dont wait until it goes wrong: Prospective hazard analysis James Ward (ZIP)
Other sections on safety:
- Safer Care Introduction - introduction to safety and the College's role
- Safety News - latest developments in patient safety
- Safety Alerts - latest reports from the National Patient Safety Agency and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Safety Resources - find commonly used safety terms, organisations, tools and resources
- Safety in your ED - CEM resources for developing patient safety in your ED