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THE SKY’S THE LIMIT

by IndustrialSafety

Prior to his post as an airline pilot, Captain Niall Downey qualified as a doctor from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1993, and trained as a surgeon in Belfast. Now, he explains to NIHR why taking on-board the lessons garnered from aviation can reduce the number of patients being inadvertently harmed by simple human error in our health services.

1. Firstly, and crucially, aviation accepts that error is inevitable, no matter

how good we are, and no matter how hard we work. We operate a ‘just…

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Surgeons Scope: No Time to Eat

by ConstructionIndustrialMedicalSafety

Surgeons’ Scope is our biannual publication for Fellows and Members. In this edition, our regular ‘A Surgeon In’ feature catches up with Professor Majella Doyle who reflects on her impressive career as a liver transplant surgeon and explains how, as a “home bird at heart”, she ended up in St Louis, Missouri. RCSI Fellow Dr Vivian McAlister goes ‘Back to the Beginning’, reflecting on his personal and professional journey, his role as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Canadian Forces Health Services and his experience of deployment to Afghanistan and lots more…. We hope you enjoy the read.

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Policy makers need to incentivise the cultural change necessary for innovation

by ConstructionIndustrialMedicalSafety
We want to create the setting that allows individuals to take the initiative to benefit themselves and society as a whole. We believe in people that try out new ideas, take risks, aren’t afraid of failure. People who pick themselves up and keep going till they get there. They adapt, change, learn, reform, grow and create. People like Niall Downey. In early 2011, he set up Frameworkhealth Ltd, a start-up company based in Northern Ireland. Using his unusual dual qualifications as both a surgeon and an airline pilot, Niall had a unique vision: bringing aviation safety techniques – some of the most stringent in the world – to healthcare, to try to reduce the number of patients being inadvertently harmed by simple human error in our health services. Innovating for our safety It is now broadly accepted that 10% of hospital admissions suffer harm due to human error. It is also accepted that between 3-10% of these suffer harm leading to or contributing to their death….
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