Making health care safer: learning from social and organisational research
SDHI/NES conference: Making health care safer: learning from social and organisational research
A two-day conference to explore key questions facing us as researchers, practitioners and policy-makers: questions that address better collective learning, sustainable quality improvement and safer patient care.
More information: Flyer [PDF]
25-26 June 2012, University of St Andrews
Conference website: http://sdhipsconf2012.wordpress.com/
Booking and call for abstracts: now open
The aim of this conference is to reflect on the challenging questions facing us as researchers, practitioners and policy-makers working in the field of patient safety. Our focus is on how social and organisational research can help deepen our understanding of what makes for safer health care organisations: organisations in which the dynamics and interactions, structures, processes and cultures are conducive to both staff and patient safety.
Outline programme
The conference will include plenary sessions with time for
discussion and debate, parallel interactive workshops and plenty of
opportunities for networking. A drinks reception and conference
dinner (included in the conference fee) will round off the first
day.
The plenary speakers will be: Professor Brendan McCormack (University of Ulster), Dr Jessica Mesman (Maastricht University), Dr Brian Robson (Healthcare Improvement Scotland), Dr David Steel (formerly of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland), Professor Justin Waring (Warwick Business School) and Dr Teun Zuiderent-Jerak (Erasmus University Rotterdam). The parallel sessions will include a welcome return visit from Dr Paul Bowie and Dr Diane Kelly from NES and (in response to requests) a session looking at patient involvement in patient safety led by Professor Ian Watt and Dr Yvonne Birks from the University of York.
Bookings
Please see the flyer or the conference website http://sdhipsconf2012.wordpress.com/registration/
for full details of how to book. Early bookings are
encouraged as the success of last year's event means that we are
expecting even more interest this year.
Submission of abstracts
We welcome submissions of abstracts from individuals and research
teams for visual displays and for parallel sessions/workshops; full
details can be found on the attached flyer and on the conference
website: http://sdhipsconf2012.wordpress.com/abstracts/.
The closing date for submission of abstracts is 5pm on Monday 16
April.
Please feel free to circulate the flyer to any colleagues who
might be interested.
