Are you a researcher looking to learn the fundamentals across various patient safety topics? Join us for our next SafetyNet Patient Safety 101 training session: Patient safety research and patient safety policy – chicken or egg? 

 Date: 29 April 2025
 Time: 1pm – 2:30pm
 Where: Online via Zoom

In this session, Professor Frances Healey will talk through examples of how patient safety research has fed into patient safety policy at the national level, and vice versa, including the influence of political and policy leaders. It will aim to cover some underpinnings of the system, including funding streams dedicated to policy research – but also aim to provoke thinking differently about rising to meet the challenges, research design in a policy context, and the importance of pace, scale, and imagination. Presentation style will include lots of opportunities for you to bring in your own thoughts, ideas, and experience.

About the trainer

Professor Frances Healey is a registered general nurse and mental health nurse with over 40 years of clinical, research, leadership, patient safety and quality improvement experience, with the last 20 years spent in national patient safety roles. Since retiring from her role as a deputy director in the national patient safety team at NHS England, she has worked as a non-executive director in an NHS trust and a Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds. Her research areas have included pressure ulcer prevention, falls prevention, learning from reported incidents, learning from deaths, alert systems, VTE and suicide.

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