National Patient Safety Conference
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The NPSO Conference is an in-person event which is used to showcase work in the area of quality, patient safety and clinical effectiveness. It is attended by health professionals, regulators, policy makers, educators, researchers, health service managers and patient representatives.
The NPSO Conference has been running since 2016, with a hiatus in both 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The NPSO Conference hosts a wide variety of presentations, poster competitions and workshops that provide updates on both the policy and operational work. This is used to promote and embed quality and patient safety across and within the healthcare services; delivering better experiences for patients and their families and supporting staff to deliver high quality care.
The 3rd National Patient Safety Conference was held in the Printworks, Dublin Castle on 17 and 18 October 2018.
Communication from a Regulatory Perspective – Bill Prasifka, Medical Council
Communicating effectively by delivering a literacy friendly health service (Workshop Presentation) – Helen Ryan – National Adult Literacy Agency & Lee Mitchell – Learner Ambassador
After Action Reviewing: supporting safety – Cornelia Stuart – HSE Quality & Risk/Theresa Kane – Institute for Leadership RCSI/ Una Healy – St James’s Hospital Dublin
Using the GRADE Evidence Decision Framework (EtD) to make decisions (Workshop Presentation) -Dr Sinéad O’Neill – HRB-CICER/Dr Barbara Clyne – HRB-CICER/Michelle O’Neill – HRB-CICER/Dr Miriam Bell – HSE ONMSD
Listening and responding to what patients tell us about their experience of communicaton in Irish hospitals. The National Healthcare Communication Initiative – Prof Eva Doherty RCSI/Winnifred Ryan – HSE HR
Health Literacy and Chronic Disease Management – Evidence for Patient Safety and Patient Empowerment – Dr Laura Mackey – UCD
Health Literacy in Ireland – implications for patient involvement and improved patient outcomes – Dr Sarah Gibney – Dept of Health
Healthcare Audi – evidence and learning on communication – Cora McCaughan – HSE QAVD
Snapshots: perspectives on the importance of communication in Implementation – Dr Aisling Sheehan – Centre for Effective Services (Theory)
National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare: Enabling Self-Assessment Utilising the QA+I Tool (Workshop Presentation) – Margaret Brennan/Declan O’Keeffe – HSE Acute Operations & Tess Fogarty – Saolta Healthcare Group
Ms Tracy O’Carroll & Ms June Boulger - National Patient Experience Survey Programme 2017: What’s happening? Update and plan for findings
Mr David Galvin - Establishing a National Prostate Cancer Outcomes Registry in Ireland: IPCOR
Dr Eva Doherty & Professor Oscar Traynor - “They do it in McDonalds!” – A new model from Teamwork in Patient Safety
Ms Angela Tysall - Patients as Partners – Open Disclosure
Dr Howard Johnson - Introducing NQAIS: a Clinical Management Information System for Clinical Governance & Quality Improvement
Mr Ken Mealy & Mr Gerry Kelliher - Introducing NQAIS: a Clinical Management Information System for Clinical Governance & Quality Improvement
Ms Mona Baker & Ms Aveen Murray - From Bedside to Boardroom: Assuring the Board of qualtiy of clinical care and patient safety in uncertain times
Ms Maureen Flynn - Boards in Action: Introducing a Board’s role in improving Quality and Safety Guidance and Resources
Professor Josephine Hegarty - Implementing Clinical Guidelines in complex organisations: the divergence of theory from practice
Dr Vida Hamilton - Snapshots of Implementation in action
Dr Lelia Thornton - Snapshots of Implementation in action
Professor Karen Ryan - Snapshots of Implementation in action
View presentations from Heather Shearer and David Garbutt, and Professor Michael West:
The 1st National Patient Safety Conference was held on 7 and 8 December 2016.
On Day 2 the Minister for Health Simon Harris launched the National Patient Safety Office.
View the video presentations from the Conference.
Dr Catherine Dumartin – Prudent use of antimicrobial agents in the EU: lessons from the Commission survey, 2015
Dr Johan Thor – Using National Quality Registries to Guide and Evaluate Clinical Improvement Efforts – Encouragement from Sweden
Dr Michael Gardam – Case Studies in Quality Improvement using Front Line Ownership
Dr Paul O’Connor – Taming the Wicked Problem of Hand Hygiene
Professor Bruce Guthrie – Improving Safety for People with multi-morbidity in Primary Care
Dr Brian Farrell – The Coroners Inquest – Patient Safety Issues
Prof Stephen Byrne – The Role of the Pharmacist in Optimising Patient Care, Lessons to be Learned both Clinically and Economically
Tracey O’Carroll/June Bolger – National Patient Experience Survey Programme: The Partnership Approach
Dr John Fitzsimons/Dr David Vaughan/Dr Catherine Diskin – Clinical Handover Workshop: A quality improvement approach to clinical handover
Dr John Fitzsimons/Rachel McDonell – Paediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) – lessons learned
Dr Vida Hamilton – National Sepsis Outcome Report 2016
Mary Fitzsimons/Dr Colin Doherty/Dr Jarlath Varley – Co-designing patient-centered care: people working together to create value
Professor Rhona Flin – Patient Safety Research: conditions for adverse events
Ms Karen Egan and Dr Éidín Ní Shé - Medical Professionalism in Relation to Safety
Up to 600 people registered for each day – the audience primarily was comprised of patients and a wide range of healthcare staff working in the area of patient safety. These included the Health Service Executive (HSE), voluntary agencies, patients, patient safety experts, regulatory bodies and the research community.
116 posters were displayed and the two days showcased a number of national and international speakers and initiatives.