Patient Safety in Perioperative Practice
Join us for this one-day event to discuss patient safety, drawing upon your existing knowledge and building upon clinical practice, previous errors and the use of education and quality improvement programmes used to deliver safe perioperative care.
A joint event with the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC), this one day meeting will discuss patient safety, including the barriers to delivering safe perioperative care and strategies on how to overcome them.
Our aims are to build upon knowledge and practice to make systems, processes and organisations safer. Through an understanding of the science of patient safety, different perspectives and approaches, coupled with collaboration, education & quality improvement programmes we hope to inspire delegates to make safety the golden thread of patient care.
The lectures will be recorded and made available to delegates post event. This event does not require live attendance, once registered you will have access to all of the recorded material for up to 3 months after the live event.
| 09:10-09:15 | Online registration opens and technical checks | |
| 09:15-09:20 | Welcome and Introduction | Dr Haresh Mulchandani |
| Session 1: | Chair: Dr David Selwyn | |
| 09:20-09:45 | Time for a new approach to Patient Safety? | Dr Rosie Benneyworth, CEO Health Services Safety Investigations Body |
| 09:45-10:10 | Lord Darzi Review | |
| 10:10-10:35 | The role of the Medical Examiner | Dr Ellen Makings, Regional Medical Examiner East of England, NHS England |
| 10:35-10:45 | Q&A and Discussion | |
| 10:45-11:10 | Break | |
| Session 2: | Chair: Dr Haresh Mulchandani | |
| 11:10-11:35 | Medical errors - inside the cockpit | Dr Lionel Davis, Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist, Homerton University Hospital & Royal London Hospital |
| 11:35-12:00 | Critical Safety in Perioperative Practice | Miss Claire Frank, CPOC Fellow, Wales |
| 12:00-12:15 | Q&A and Discussion | |
| 12:15-13:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 3: | Trainee Session - Chair Dr Leo Salm | |
| 13:00-13:20 | Lighting the CANDLE for Quality Improvement and Safety |
Dr Lydia Fletcher, Anaesthetic ST7, Barts Health NHS Trust |
| 13:20-13:30 | Trainee Safety Prize 1 | |
| 13:30-13:40 | Trainee Safety Prize 2 | |
| 13:40-13:50 | Trainee Safety Prize 3 | |
| 13:50-14:00 | Trainee Safety Prize 4 | |
| 14:00-14:15 | Break | |
| Session 4: | Chair: Dr Annie Hunningher | |
| 14:15-14:35 | Implementing the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework | Mrs Lauren Mosley, Head of Patient Safety Implementation, NHS England |
| 14:35-15:05 | Using system thinking tools to enhance patient safety |
Mrs Christina Rennie, Consultant Ophthalmologist and Clinical Director for Patient Safety, University Hospital Southampton Dr Claire Fox, Patient Safety Lead, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| 15:05-15:25 | Perioperative Care Medical Curriculum | Dr Daniel Conway, Consultant Anaesthetist, Manchester Foundation Trust |
| 15:25-16:15 | PANEL DISCUSSION | Dr Joe Lipton |
| 16:15-16:20 | Trainee Safety Prize Award Winner Announcement | Dr David Selwyn |
| 16:20 | Close |
Pricing
ODPs and Nurses are welcome to register under the Anaesthetist in Training rate.
Pricing Terms and Conditions
Payment must be made at the time of booking unless otherwise stated. The RCoA, FICM and FPM are unable to hold places on events without payment. Credit or debit card payments must be made online via our card payment handler Stripe, or by phone. We do not accept purchase orders or raise invoices for places on our events.
Discounts are available for some membership types at the rates stated below. You must be eligible for the discount both at the time of the booking and at the time of the event itself. We may ask for proof of your member status at any point. If you are unable to prove your entitlement to the discount we may charge you the full event rate, or invite you to update your membership status accordingly. In such a situation we may withhold access to the event until your updated payment clears, or your new membership status is confirmed.
Trainee Abstract Competition
You are invited to submit an abstract for e-presentation at the virtual Patient Safety in Perioperative Practice meeting.
Four abstracts will be selected by a panel to present orally and have the opportunity to win a prize.
A trainee must be the lead author.
Abstracts should fall under the theme of 'Patient Safety and / or Quality Improvement'.
The closing date for entries is midnight on Monday 27 January 2025.
A panel of RCoA judges will assess all submissions shortly after the closing date. Authors will be notified week commencing 3 February 2025 if they have been invited to display their poster at the Patient Safety in Perioperative Practice conference.
Further details, including the application form are available by clicking here.
Clinical Content Leads
David was appointed as the inaugural Director of the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) in May 2019, tasked with establishing and developing CPOC as a genuinely cross-organisational, multidisciplinary initiative delivering perioperative care for true patient benefit. CPOC is hosted by the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA), and in his second 3-year term, David continues to drive forward transformational change across the perioperative patient journey.
Prior to becoming Director of CPOC, David was the Chairman of the RCoA Clinical Directors’ Network, a national network of medical leaders in anaesthesia, intensive care, and pain management. He continues to sit on the College Council and is also a representative on several major Royal College quality, safety and professional standards committees. David lectures locally, regionally and nationally on perioperative care and also on medical leadership.
David is currently the Executive Medical Director at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where he is committed to raising the clinical voice across the Trust and wider Integrated Healthcare Systems. He is also the Trust’s Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO), Caldicott Guardian and was appointed as Deputy Chief Executive in April 2022.
Prior to joining Sherwood Forest Hospitals in 2019, David was the Deputy Medical Director at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust for 2 ½ years. This followed an extensive career within the Trust as Divisional Director, Clinical Director and Head of Service, dealing with the various competing demands of medical leadership and management across a complex organisation. His clinical background is anaesthesia, perioperative care and adult critical care.
Before embarking on his leadership journey, David was a Regional Advisor for 8 years, an inaugural Intensive Care Medicine Training Programme Director and a Faculty Tutor.
Annie is a Consultant in Anaesthesia at the Royal London Hospital along with being the Barts Health Group Safety Lead and a National Patient Safety Specialist (PSS). She was the clinical Lead for the UK Centre for Perioperative Care NatSSIPs 2 rewrite (National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures) which was published in Jan 2023. Annie is an IHI Quality Improvement (QI) coach and a Human Factors trainer. Annie is a speaker, co-organiser/faculty for and at a number of Human Factors, Quality Improvement, Return to work, safety and Leadership conferences. She has trained over 100 MDT teams.