We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming SafetyNet webinar on Improving the response to adverse events, with Professor Peter Hibbert, Australian Institute of Health Innovation.

Internationally in health care, there is clear evidence that healthcare incident management systems and associated patient safety investigations are not as effective as expected in systematically reducing the frequency of incidents causing harm to patients (also known as adverse events).

The Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University is undertaking research as part of a National Health and Medical Research (NHMRC) Grant Partnership Grant and with four public health systems in Australia to improve the health systems response when patients are harmed.  The research has three aims:

1. Evaluate traditional and emerging methods to improve response to, and learning from, serious incidents – creating best practice and decision support.
2. Develop and test methods, including integrating artificial intelligence tools, to improve analyses of, and learning from, all incidents.
3. Undertake a cost analysis of the incident management system process – for the first time, an economic appraisal of Australian data to quantify the costs of incident management systems and associated patient safety Reviews. 

This session will summarise the research and findings to date, as well as innovations that are occurring in Australia in relation to and health services’ response to adverse events, including patient safety investigations. These include having consumer representatives on patient safety investigation teams and Dedicated Family Support for patients impacted by adverse events.

Biography

Professor Peter Hibbert (B.App.Sc.(Physio), Grad.Dip.Comp., Grad.Dip.Econ., PhD) is a researcher at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation. He has worked for the last 20 years in research and policy implementation in patient safety and measurement of evidenced-based care, including three years as an Associate Director at the National Patient Safety Agency in the UK. He previously worked as a physiotherapist for 12 years.

His interests are quality and safety in aged care and healthcare, indicator development, measuring evidence-based care, and safety investigations. He ran the CareTrack Aged study which was the first study in the world to measure the level of evidence-based care provided to residents in aged care facilities.

As well as research, Hibbert has hands-on clinical governance roles including membership of Board level committees for quality and safety at the South Australian Ambulance Service and undertaking high profile investigations when patients or residents are harmed. In the last seven years, he has conducted over 200 patient safety and investigation workshops across more than 50 organisations, training >7,000 healthcare senior executives, managers and clinicians.

We look forward to seeing you at the webinar!

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