No Needless Ignorance

Work stream Update

8th March 2012

Fizz ThompsonExecutive Sponsor

South Central

Workstream Aims

• To become more proactive in identification and prevention of causes of harm to patients

• To create an environment that inspires all NHS staff to insist that care is as safe as possible

• To ensure a more open culture in which errors or service failures are reported

No Needless Ignorance - Objectives

• Engage all levels of staff in the principles of no needless ignorance

• human factors training

• Use of simulation to engage and promote human factors and communication skills

• Improving the safety of handovers

Progress

• Joint working with national Clinical Human Factors group

• 2011 No Needless ignorance conference

• Supporting local research in to human factors

• Supporting proposal for human factors training (including simulation )

• Improving communications with learning needs patients

• Improving handovers of care