Date of event: Thursday, 7 March 2024

In this fascinating SafetyNet webinar, Professor Ian Leistikow from Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Dutch Health & Youth Care Inspectorate, contrasted classic regulatory strategies of increasing compliance with a ‘value driven’ approach to regulation.

The ‘value driven’ approach aims to acknowledge the dynamic and nuanced nature of improving healthcare quality whilst attending to current societal values. The approach centres on the question of, WHO is doing WHAT to create WHICH societal value?

Ian discussed how a value driven approach to regulation can be developed and drew upon a broad range of research projects to illustrate the positive impact of this approach. Examples included greater involvement of patients and families in incident investigations and more broadly in efforts to improve safety.  

Biography

Ian Leistikow is inspector/advisor at the Dutch Health & Youth Care Inspectorate and professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam where he conducts and supervises research into ‘governmental regulation of health and care quality’. He is a non-practicing physician. In 2011 Ian became member of the Program Advisory Committee of the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare (BMJ/IHI). Ian is board member of SINC, an international collaboration of European health and care regulators. Ian teaches and publishes about patient safety and the role of regulation. In 2017 CRC Press published his book “Prevention is better than cure”, on learning from adverse events in healthcare.

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