Webinar - Frontline Patient Safety: 20 strategies to keep you and your patient safe

Frontline Patient Safety: 20 strategies to keep you and your patient safe

5 April 2022

11.00am-12.00noon

View our recording on the AIHI YouTube channel

Speaker: Dr Farrow was Director of Clinical Governance at Sydney Children’s Hospital Network 2012-2019 where he led initiatives reducing serious patient harm and saving $48M in projected costs. He was awarded an NSW Health Insurance Award in 2016.

He is an experienced healthcare executive, author and general surgeon. His Australian Defence Force career includes Regular and Reserve Army service and operational deployments as a surgeon and commander.

He has implemented difficult change and achieved significant performance improvements at hospital and District level. He promotes a strong ethos of individual accountability and responsibility, while understanding the vital importance of a systems approach in quality and safety.

Webinar: All safety systems rely on an individual using the system and responding appropriately to safety alerts. Almost all serious adverse events are triggered by failure to recognise or failure to respond to deterioration. Understanding why, is part of human factors research.

High reliability principles underpin simple strategies based on experience and evidence. These can be part of a clinician’s toolbox at the bedside and help to prevent harm, both to the patient but also the clinician themselves.

Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite will host Dr Glen Farrow, healthcare executive, author and general surgeon, for this important webinar.

About AIHI

The Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI) is an internationally recognised research-intensive centre within Macquarie University, Sydney. We collaborate widely, conducting high impact research into health services and systems to make a positive difference for patients, healthcare professionals and society.