Paediatrician at CHI. Allergy interested. CD for QI, HSE QPSD. Faculty on RCPI PG Cert. QI Leadership in Healthcare. Perpetually curious. Own views
Dublin City, Ireland
Joined December 2010
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Kindness in leadership: Moving the dialogue from productivity to engagement. By Anna Baverstock and Paul Molyneux - go.shr.lc/4r90rZN via @Shareaholic
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The RSV immunisation protects babies from serious illness.
Book your baby’s appointment now for immunisation up to December 12th.
Visit: hse.ie/rsv
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Have you had a baby in Ireland in the past 5 years?!
We're seeking women with recent experience of maternity care for a #PPI panel and to guide our research on maternity safety. Meetings will be online and payment is available! #patientsafety #maternity #pregnancy
A real pleasure to share this rich conversation @juanitaguidera and I have with the wonderful @donberwick Healing is Healthcare: Quality is Goodness with special guest Don Berwick podbean.com/ew/pb-s2rd6-1884…
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Sharing his take home message for #RCPCH25 @PeterLachman says:
“We need to inject patient safety into the genome from medical training onwards” it needs to be in the DNA of every clinician.
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Want to know more about how we can involve children, young people, and families in patient safety? Our recent clinical fellow has been published in Archives of Disease in Childhood and explores practical approaches to making paediatric care safer.
👇 ep.bmj.com/content/early/202…
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"Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now."
On Jack Kerouac's birthday, his beautiful letter to his first wife turned lifelong friend about kindness and the illusion of the self themarginalian.org/2014/03/1…
Delighted to have contributed to this with several other Irish authors…Book review: a useful handbook on quality improvement in healthcare | BMJ Quality & Safety @RCPI_news @RCSI_Irl well done @PeterLachman qualitysafety.bmj.com/conten…
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While conventional metrics offer snapshots of safety events, patient-reported experience and outcome measures capture patients’ lived experience and shed light on patterns and opportunities for improvement that might otherwise be missed.
Read more. ⬇️ go.ihi.org/3EJcjxV
Well done to @HSELive National QPS, @ucdsnmhs & @PFPS_Ireland on the publication of the QPS Competency Navigator. This great resource was truly co-designed & will have a good and lasting influence on QI education, practice &outcomes www2.healthservice.hse.ie/or…
Looking forward to speaking with @EvaDoherty and Dr Hardeep Singh on Tuesday @HSELive QPSTalktime on Diagnostic Excellence @HumanFactorsPS @RCPI_news @TempleStreetHos hse.webex.com/webappng/sites…
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God, I remember the years of being absolutely swamped with really sick paediatric RSV patients years ago. Hopefully that infection will go the way of epiglotitis
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I've heard debate (again) about the pros of #QI vs #Lean, and vice versa...
You don't need to choose one or the other. It’s more important to develop a clear, well-defined organisational structure for #improvement, and empower people at the front line to effect change.
#QITwitter
Well done all!
Delighted to see this work, bringing together Human Factors Data Science and AI to support risk management in healthcare, published in Ergonomics @PeterLachman @johnfitzsimons9 @carayonp @davidjvaughan @tashacoen @gcThomasJun @irishergonomics @CIEHF tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Join me with @NeelamDhingra1 and @HardeepSinghMD on the next @IPAWorldorg webinar to celebrate @WHO #WorldPatientSafetyDay on Friday, 13 September 2024 | 1.30-3.00 PM UTC
registration on flyer or here us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
#patientsafety #WPSD
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⚠️Applications for the Postgraduate Certificate in Cancer Genetics and Genomics have been extended to 7 August.
This programme is delivered virtually for those who wish to advance their skills in the area of Cancer Genetics and Genomics.
Book now 👉
courses.rcpi.ie/product?cata…
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As The BMJ celebrates 10 years since the launch of its patient and public partnership strategy, we ask why more medical journals do not have a similar partnership with patients.
This #BMJInfographic shows four ways to encourage patients to get involved
🔗 bit.ly/3W3BCje
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Communication preferences and risk thresholds of clinicians and parents of febrile infants <90 days presenting to ED
Desire for shared decision-making evolves over time
Qualitative study
@KJWkathryn @timburgD
adc.bmj.com/content/early/20…
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Leadership and culture are often blamed when underlying systems are the real problem. s.hbr.org/45ZqWqn
