Chris SubbeJan 103 minYou are in hospital: Who advocates for you if you can't? A patient is admitted to hospital. She rings her daughter at home: things are not good; she is feeling awful, her heart is racing, she is...
Chris SubbeJan 13 minWhat not to forget from "the year to forget"First of January 2021: "Year 1 post COVID" or "Year 2 of COVID"? 2020 was the year where lots of things did not go to plan. And where man...
Chris SubbeMay 8, 20202 minPatient Powered Safety 2020 - 12 days to goEverything has changed: After we announced Patient Powered Safety 2020 our world has been turned upside down. We are social distancing fr...
Chris SubbeNov 30, 20192 minBASE-Lab-Health: what we believe in in 5 twitter accounts ? When we were discussing what BASE-Lab-Health should be about we spoke about the people and groups that inspire us. Here are five of them:...
Chris SubbeNov 12, 20191 minExciting? You bet!Dreaming to have the head-space to work with people to co-produce better: better analysis, better understanding, better change, better me...
Chris SubbeMay 6, 20191 minNational climbing centre is teaching doctors & nurses about safer care in hospital – for In May we are running two events around patient safety: an Innovation Lab at Pontio and a symposium on the 23rd/24th hosted by Bangor Uni...
Chris SubbeJan 10, 20194 minFree Solo – Does 4 hours zero margin for error seem a short time?Second attempt. The first time the movie was showing my car had problems and I didn’t get away early enough and it was sold out. The seco...
Chris SubbeDec 20, 20184 minGoing live in 2019: Patient Powered Safety – good news x 2A mere ten days to the end of 2018 and I am getting close to the end of year two of my fellowship with The Health Foundation with two pie...
Chris SubbeDec 13, 20184 minThe key difference between designing a public building and a public service: let’s ask Renzo Piano!Public buildings and public services are funded by … the public! But the underlying values and principles for their design could not be m...
Chris SubbeOct 1, 20184 minNot enough seats on the plane from Dubrovnik…. and other tough choices in health care We are on our way back from a short break in the Mediterranean. While sipping a coffee in the a...
Chris SubbeSep 14, 20184 minPeerless peers – The Health Foundation is cooking up magic medicine in its new Lab!The Health Foundation has just finished its first Q Improvement lab with a series of blogs illustrating the journey that led them to adap...
Chris SubbeAug 4, 20183 minBeware the worried well – they might have a point !We all worry at times. We worry about the weather, rising interest rates or arguments with colleagues. And we worry about health. Being w...
Chris SubbeJul 24, 20184 minToo cool to care? Drivers for developing safer systems for hospitalised patientsStuart cares. When he used to return from his shift he would think over the day. Did he put anybody at risk? Was his practice safe? He wo...
Chris SubbeJul 13, 20184 min‘Surely we all have the right to save our own lives?’ Yes, even in hospital.In a nutshell this is what the expert meeting convened by the International Society for Rapid Response Systems concluded this week in Man...
Chris SubbeJul 6, 20183 minIs 70 a bit late for learning how to read ?Just in case you missed it between the headlines about beating Panama and ghosts of penalties past: The NHS is finally reached its 70th b...
Chris SubbeJun 24, 20184 minWe got the price for patient safety wrong!The Patient Safety Congress is only two weeks away: Researchers, mangers and clinicians will descend into Manchester on the 9th and 10th ...
Chris SubbeJun 11, 20183 minCambridge Analytics – Where patient safety went next!On Wednesday evening I am coming back up the coast while the sun goes down over Anglesey. Three days of learning and reflection with the ...
Chris SubbeMay 30, 20181 minThe James Reason Swiss Cheese Failure Model in 300 SecondsAnd a great summary about systems approach to failure. What's the PONT This week I’m at the Cardiff pilot of Practical Strategies for Lea...
Chris SubbeMay 30, 20185 minPatient representative? No need to be patient, these are navigation experts!It happens that I am a patient today: I got up from sitting for hours on an office chair and immediately had excruciating pain down my le...
Chris SubbeMay 23, 20181 minTop 3 lessons learnt from healthcare improvers worldwide: the International Forum 2018Digested read of a BIG conference! And don’t forget to follow Sara Riggare on Twitter! NIHR CLAHRC Northwest London Blog The Internationa...
