Speaker: Associate Professor Sophia Ang, Head, MA (CG), Vice Chairman Medical Board (Patient Safety and Quality), NUH

This is a regular sharing session promoting just culture and aimed at improving systems and patient safety in NUH. Potential risks and catastrophic cases such as mix-up of gases, ruptured bladder from misconnection and blood transfusion error that have occurred in other healthcare institutions unearthed via Horizontal Scanning will be shared in the hope that we can prevent these in our own hospital.

This session will also highlight recent incidents of temporary interruption of power supply in clinical area and its impact on patient safety. In addition, learning lessons from patient safety incidents such as airway complication, tube misconnection, misidentification of patient, removal of wrong tube and others will be shared.

Registration & Breakfast at 7.10am, talk begins at 7.40am.