1000 Lives Plus launch - Martin Bromiley

Martin Bromiley is a pilot and also Chair of the Clinical Human Factors Group, which seeks to improve attitudes towards error among healthcare professionals. Martin’s personal story informs much of his work, as his wife died after a ‘routine’ operation in 2005.

 

Read an interview with Martin.

 

Martin's presentation from the launch of the 1000 Lives Plus programme is now available and the following are video extracts from his session: 

 

Elaine's Story – Martin talks about the clinical procedures his wife experienced, and how failings in non-technical skills contributed  to her death

 

Investigating to Learn – Martin explains how he was stunned that clinicians wouldn’t automatically seek to learn from the circumstances surrounding his wife’s death

 

All accidents are avoidable – a shocking comparison between healthcare and aviation to explain the scale of the ‘harm problem’ in healthcare

 

Balancing Safety and Productivity – Martin explains how ‘productivity’ and ‘safety’ are closely allied and how reliable processes are both safe and productive

 

Error and Human Factors – perhaps the biggest difference between aviation and healthcare is accepting that error is normal and talking openly about errors in order to catch them

 

‘Walkrounds’ not ‘Workarounds’ – leadership is critical, but needs to be flexible to make sure that ‘workarounds’ don’t become the norm, because workarounds encourage deviation from safe practice