Patient Safety, Human Factors and PSIRF Insights for Healthcare Organisations
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Start with our practical guides to PSIRF, human factors in healthcare, systems-based learning, patient safety investigations and healthcare governance.
Yesterday’s successful control may not protect tomorrow’s patient. Steve Franklin explores ergodicity, complex systems and Taleb’s risk principles, with practical implications for PSIRF, healthcare risk management and board assurance.
Recent NHS record-access cases demand accountability. This article asks what system owners, boards and digital leaders must do before a breach creates another victim.
When something goes wrong, does the organisation ask what it needs to learn, or how quickly it can show that it has acted? Steve Franklin explores whether our emotional “Chimps” are shaping leadership decisions.
Human Factors in healthcare is fundamentally about understanding how people make decisions within complex systems. Whether we're implementing PSIRF, investigating a patient safety incident, improving medicines management or strengthening clinical governance, the key question remains the same: how do people actually get work done in the real world? Surprisingly, a family game of Dobble provided a useful reminder of why understanding work-as-done matters so much for patient saf