Tuesday 16 May | 08:00-08:45

Format: Panel session
Stream: tbc
Content filters: tbc

With the editors of BMJ Leader and BMJ Quality and Safety, along with other experts, welcome to the International Forum’s inaugural book club! We’ve put together a panel of experts who will definitely have read the book, and we’d encourage anyone at the Forum to read it too. Our chosen book for this meeting is Still Not Safe: Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine by Robert Wears and Kathleen Sutcliffe  https://academic.oup.com/book/32257. 

Still not Safe is a book that really challenges the patient safety movement. Although it has a focus on the US healthcare system, we’re going to be discussing how we might want to reflect and challenge these ideas in our own settings. It touches on the science, the organisational psychology and the financing of healthcare, and even challenges the words we use routinely. We hope participants will gain new insights and perspectives into the patient safety movement and feel refreshed and energised by a period of reflection and discussion.

Please buy or borrow a copy of the book, and tell us via social media what your key points and questions are before the International Forum, or just come along and listen on the day.

Chair: Helen Surana, BMJ Events

Panelists:

Amit Nigam, Bayes Business School; England, Deputy Editor for BMJ Leader; England

Natalie Armstrong, SAPPHIRE group, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester; England

Cat Chatfield, Health Services Research UK; England

Maaike Asselbergs, Patients for Patient Safety Canada; Canada

Ian Leistikow, Dutch Health and Youth Care Inspectorate; Netherlands