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When I started out in the NHS I could never have imagined where my career would take me. Over 40 years later I have had the most wonderful career both as a clinician and as a patient safety specialist which has taken me all over the world and to meet the most fantastic people along…
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My mum and I spent a small fortune one year in buying online what we considered were the most beautiful plants for her garden. They arrived tiny and frail but full of promise, we had even proudly drawn up a garden design for where they would go in the particular border we wanted to improve.…
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My second book came out on 10 October 2019, I cannot believe where the time has gone. I wrote my first book Rethinking Patient Safety but still had so much more to say and wanted to share the learning from the last five years working on the Sign up to Safety campaign. So during our…
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I am delighted to share the following guest blog by the lovely Amy Overend. Kindness, it seems like a simple notion doesn’t it? A simple way of telling another struggling soul that there is love, hope and happiness to be found in the world. More often than not nowadays kindness seems to be in short supply. The…
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Suzette here. Second book has gone to the publisher. It’s going to be called Implementing Patient Safety. I have combined the thinking of safety II with complexity science and new ideas in relation to helping people work safely. I have then proposed how there are 5 things we have to do now: Create a balanced…
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Very excited to share that my second book ‘Implementing Patient Safety’ is nearly finished. This is the second book I have written focusing on patient safety. The first book, Rethinking patient Safety documented the thinking of leading experts in safety. It was called ‘rethinking’ patient safety because while it has widespread recognition across healthcare and there…
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Carl Horsley wrote on twitter just the other day… It’s not about Safety II or even safety, really. It’s bigger than that. It’s about how we work. And it touches on leadership, teams, quality, safety, staff and patient experience. Everything Over the last five years a small group of us have had the privilege of…
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As each placement progressed and as each year passed by I became more and more skilled as a nurse. I learnt by watching and working with some fantastic role models. I learnt to work with multiple different teams and then to lead them. I learnt by doing things over and over again, getting better and…
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Too often I get a question from the audience which goes a little like this … “It’s all very well all this being kind to one another but what can we do about the people who are useless or lazy or unsafe..” Now I would argue that it is being kind if we help those…
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I have the privilege of going round the country talking with people from all backgrounds and all levels in the NHS. The focus of these conversations is safety. There are three themes that keep coming up. 1. The relentless pressure to increase the number of incident reports together with the consequential investigations is not working.…
PATIENT SAFETY NOW 