Scotland’s Human Factors Network for Health & Social Care Optimising Organisational Performance and Human Wellbeing
Welcome!
Hello everyone and welcome to the 2nd e-Newsletter from Scotland’s Human Factors Network for Health & Social Care.
To join our Network please email: humanfactors@nes.scot.nhs.uk
You can follow us on Twitter: @HFhealthcareUK
What are Our Goals?
Who are We?
The network membership is quickly growing in size due to the strong interest in Human Factors across:
Our September 2023 Meeting
At our most recent network meeting we heard from a range of experts in the field who described their experiences of applying Human Factors concepts and methods to better understand care system safety to design related improvement interventions:
You can find the programme and presentations from the day here Human Factors and Ergonomics Symposiums | Turas | Learn (nhs.scot)
And the Clinical Human Factors Group (a charity looking to campaign for change in the NHS)
Our Next Meeting
Our next 1-day network and symposium meeting is provisionally scheduled for Friday 9th February 2023 at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh (please email humanfactors@nes.scot.nhs.uk to secure a place - programme for the day to follow). Topics to be covered on the day include: