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.
What if the person labelled as "difficult" is actually responding to challenges you cannot yet see? Using Nami's story from One Piece, this blog explores Human and Organisational Performance (HOP), safety leadership, human factors and safety culture. It examines how leaders can move beyond first impressions, understand the stories behind behaviour, and design work around people to build stronger teams, better performance and safer, more resilient organisations.