Building on the successful, Fight Fatigue campaign and the global FRMS Forum, the Healthcare Fatigue Forum provides the opportunity to discuss the issues of fatigue in healthcare, learn from the experiences of other industries where fatigue risk management solutions are used, and participate in setting future strategies.
The Healthcare Fatigue Forum will
Co-chair of joint fatigue working group. Co-lead for mentoring at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Past Vice president of Association of Anaesthetists.
Consultant Anaesthetist in Birmingham and co-chair of the Joint Association of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine Fatigue Working Group.
General Secretary at the European Patient Safety Foundation, leading a cross member state initiative to recognise and improve clinical fatigue to improve patient outcomes.
Consultant in sleep medicine at Children’s Sleep Department at Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Specific interests in narcolepsy, adolescent sleep, and the effect of shiftwork and fatigue on NHS staff.
Safety consultant specialising in FRMS, Formerly of UK Civil Aviation Authority and British Airline Pilots Association. Served on the human performance task forces for ICAO and FTL rulemaking for EASA.
Professor of Human Factors in Transport with nearly 30 years’ experience across academia and industry. Formerly an Inspector at the Rail Accident Investigation for 11 years investigating rail incidents and accidents.
Consultant in Sleep Medicine and Clinical Lead for Sleep Service at James Cook University Hospital. Doing a PhD on Fatigue in Healthcare Staff and South Tees NHS Sleep and Fatigue rep on their Wellbeing Ops Group.
Chartered Human Factors Engineer and Fellow of CIEHF. Human Factors Lead in an NHS Trust with overy 20 years experience with transport industries and healthcare safety.
Chair in Applied Health Research, School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia. Chief Investigator on NIHR-funded CATNAPS study to design an FRMS for NHS Ambulances Services.
The programme will be a mixture of “Chalk and Talk” and small group work, including talks from experts across healthcare and fatigue risk management systems with workshops, panel and plenary sessions to discuss the current and future challenges of implementing fatigue risk management across the healthcare industry.
The Forum will run from 09:30 until 16:30 with registration from 09:00
The draft programme is:
Simon Wickes, Director, FRMSc Ltd
Dr Nancy Redfern, Consultant Anaesthetist, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Emma Plunkett, Consultant Anaesthetist, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust
Tim White, Head of Risk, Compliance & Assurance, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Mike Farquhar, Consultant Paediatric Sleep Medicine, Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Trust
Dr Ceri Sutherland, Consultant Anaesthetist and Sleep Medicine, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Facilitated Small Group Discussions
Followed by reporting back from the Groups
Kathryn Jones, Aviation FRMS Expert, FRMSc Ltd
Prof Mark Young, Human Factors in Transport, University of Southampton
Dr Laura Pickup, Director, LP Human Factors Ltd
Individuals, culture, organisation responsibility, regulators, Healthcare Safety Investigation Board
Facilitated Small Group Discussions
Followed by reporting back from the Groups
Prof. Kristy Sanderson, Chair in Applied Health Research, University of East Anglia
Facilitated Small Group Discussion and report back
Moderator: Dr Emma Plunkett
Panellists
Prof Kristy Sanderson (University of East Anglia),
Dr Mike Farquhar (Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Trust),
Dr April Lu (St Helen’s & Knowsley NHS Trust),
Dr Gareth Kitchen (University of Manchester)
Mirka Cikkelova, General Secretary, European Patient Safety Foundation (EUPSF)
Moderator: Simon Wickes
Panelists
Tim White (Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust),
Kathryn Jones (FRMSc Ltd),
Prof Mark Young (University of Southampton)
Dr JP Lomas (Bolton NHS Foundation Trust),
Moderator: Dr Nancy Redfern
How can we maintain and build the momentum?
What are the next steps?
Tea Break included
Dr Nancy Redfern, Dr Emma Plunkett & Simon Wickes
The cost to attend has been heavily subsidised through sponsorship and is £50 per person for the day, including refreshments and lunch.
5 CPD points agreed by the Royal College of Anaesthetists.
Attendance can be used for NMC Revalidation
Certificates can be provided upon request.
The Healthcare Fatigue Forum is being held at the Hyatt Regency in Manchester.
The hotel is ideally located near to the University of Manchester and Manchester Royal Infirmary. It is walking distance from Manchester Oxford Road Rail Station and 40 minutes on public transport from Manchester Airport.
Rooms can be booked at the hotel. A discounted rate has been negotiated for the nights around the Forum.
