Who should be trained in HF: Clinical staff, Managers or Leaders? | Human Factors Forum

Who should be trained in HF: Clinical staff, Managers or Leaders?

Paul gained his doctorate in significant event analysis from the University of Glasgow in 2004 and has published over 110 papers on healthcare quality and safety in international peer-reviewed journals and co-edited a book on safety and improvement in primary care. Paul is also Honorary Professor and a PhD supervisor/examiner in the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow, and Associate Editor of BMC Family Practice.  He is Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of General Practitioners, and a Registered Member of the UK Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. 

In his NHS role, he leads on the educational development and implementation of innovative research and evaluation approaches to improving the quality and safety of patient care and the wellbeing of the healthcare workforce, based on systems thinking and human-centred design principles and methods.  A key focus of this work is leading the development of a national plan for integration of Human Factors concepts and practices in priority areas of healthcare in Scotland.  He has specific research and education interests in safety culture, learning from events, systems thinking for every day work, barrier management approaches to serious organisational incidents, peer review of small-scale QI project activity, and embedding fundamental Human Factors theory and methods in healthcare education and national quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.

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