Programme Updates

Wednesday 23 April

EU Net PaS - 17.45 -18.30 hrs
A network involving the 27 member states of the European Union
Open to all Forum attendees
EUNetPaS (European Union Network for Patient Safety) is a project funded and supported by the Public Health Executive Agency within the 2007 Public Health Programme of the European Commission. This project is coordinated by HAS (French National Authority for Health). Its purpose is to establish an umbrella network of all 27 EU Member States and EU stake holders to encourage and enhance their collaboration in the field of patient safety (culture, reporting and learning systems, medication safety and education), thus maximising efficiency of efforts at EU level. EUNetPaS will establish common principles at the EU level through the integration of knowledge, experiences and expertise gathered from individual member states and EU stake holders, facilitate the development of patient safety (PS) programmes in member states, and also provide support to less advanced countries.

Member state involvement will be coordinated by national contact points in an approach designed to promote national platforms in PS. It will also bring together professionals from health care organisations in 10 member states who will test some of these practices in the field of medication safety.

Objectives and methodology will be presented. Feedback from the audience will be encouraged as the project is only now being launched.

New speaker details for Session B5 - Victor Boguslavsky, Country Director, URC Moscow, Russia, Marco Linden, Medical Director, Nkhoma Mission Hospital, Malawi, Pierre Barker, Professor of Paediatrics, University of North Carolina, USA, Gilbert Buckle, Executive Secretary, Department of Health, National Catholic Secretariat, Ghana

New speaker details for Minicourse M5 - Ian Swallow, Actor, Pam McLean Centre, Australia

New Session details for Minicourse M2 - Systems analysis of Clinical Incidents
This course will discuss the realities of undertaking investigations and what aids the process.Two specific clinical cases will be discussed and investigations of these cases reconstructed. Emphasis will be placed on learning to produce and recognise a meaningful outcome rather than procedural neatness. The relationship of the disclosure process to the incident investigation will also be discussed. After this course you will be able to:

• Convene an appropriate team
  
• Structure the investigative meetings
  
• Think creatively about the questions that can be asked
  
• Formulate causal statements
  
• Formulate recommendations
  
• Describe the organizational complexities the RCA process can produce

Christine Jorm, Charles Vincent, Rick Iedema

Thursday 24 April

New speaker details for Session E4 – Brian Toft, Professor of Patient Safety, Applied Research Centre Health & Lifestyles Interventions, Coventry University, UK

New session description for Session E4 -

This workshop sets out different approaches to doing adverse event investigations. The workshop will provide international perspectives.

After this session you will be able to:

• Provide an overview of the advantages and disadvantages of externally and internally conducted investigations and attendant adverse event investigation techniques
  
• Articulate criteria governing the involvement of staff involved in the adverse event in the investigation
  
• Separate tasks that are investigative and procedural from ones that are communicative and interpersonal.
  

Louise Wallace, Professor, University of Coventry; Rick Iedema, Professor, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Christine Jorm, Senior Medical Adviser, Australian Commission on Safety & Quality in Health Care, Brian Toft, Professor of Patient Safety, Applied Research Centre Health & Lifestyles Interventions, Coventry University, UK

New speaker details for Session F6, Lean Thinking - Strategic transformation of Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital using lean: day case surgery case study, Paul Hetherington, Director for Delivery and Performance, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital NHS Trust

New speaker deatails for Session G6 - Stefanie Hennig, Project Manager, Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany