Putting the care in health care

Quality and safety of care remain a priority for the NHS. Recent evidence suggests that medical decision-making can be challenging because clinicians have too much to consider, many patients to care for, and not enough time or staff to handle everything. In this talk, I will share the developmental journey of technology that uses routinely collected blood test results and vital signs to provide automated patient’s risk. I will explore how this technology can enable clinicians to make more effective decisions, ultimately contributing to the quality and safety of patient care within the NHS.

When kids go into hospital they’re usually accompanied by their parents who want to… well… parent. But that role is side-lined in favour of medical and nursing hierarchy. Errors with medicines for kids in hospital are common, and parents could be able to prevent so many of these, but they’re treated like incompetent outsiders… In a time of Martha’s Rule I’ll use the insights from my research to explore epistemic injustice and how “safety” rules in healthcare contribute to the problem, rather than keep our kids safe.