Patient Safety: Looking Back, Going Forward. (360G-Wellcome-107799_Z_15_Z)

The General Medical Council (GMC) has launched a radical consultation this year, which will place patient safety at the heart of medical education and training across the UK. Even so, historically, it remains a neglected area of research in the medical humanities. This has created a policy vacuum and one that urgently needs to be filled by bringing together researchers, practitioners and patient groups to speak about how to maintain a safe environment for patients. Our proposed one-day workshop is therefore being convened in June 2015 at Leicester University at a critical time in patient-safety research and policy. It will be primarily for front-facing staff medical professionals, healthcare managers and patient groups confronted by the challenges of managing patient safety on a daily basis. Delegates will share the latest historical research during the workshop, to stimulate new conversations about how the lessons of the medical humanities can inform current practice. By way of examp le, we have attached one of the proposed planned break-out workshops. It is envisaged that this interactive format will lead to a larger grant application to the Wellcome Trust in the foreseeable future, with the primary purpose of bringing together various stakeholders in nationwide patient safety.