Eithne Fyfe
Specialist Oral Surgeon and partner Bristol Dental Specialists
AIMS:
To gain an understanding of patient safety as the avoidance, prevention and amelioration of adverse outcomes/injuries resulting from healthcare interventions
OBJECTIVES:
Attendees will appreciate the responsibilities placed on healthcare professionals to ensure that patient safety becomes hard-wired into all healthcare processes. Mechanisms to educate, monitor and evaluate the detection, prevention and correction of processes which might lead to patient harm will be discussed. The findings of recent government reports on failings in the hospital environment will be discussed with a view to learning lessons applicable to dentistry.