Patient Safety, Human Factors and PSIRF Insights for Healthcare Organisations
Featured Articles.
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.
The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework asks healthcare providers to learn proportionately and improve meaningfully. This article examines how NHS and independent healthcare leaders can use Human Factors, clinical governance and corporate governance to match expertise to the work, improve value and prevent AI from shifting the bottleneck from producing information to reviewing and acting on it.