Safety Events

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)

Don’t 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