Updates & media release from the conference
17 October 2007
Monday 24 September 2007
- A 'critical juncture' for patient safety research
Introductory Plenary Session: Introduction
David Bates
External Lead Research, WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety and Harvard University, USA
- ‘Virtuous circle' of research, policy and practice
Introductory Plenary Session: Welcome
Alan Maryon-Davis
President, Faculty of Public Health, UK
- The need for a new patient safety culture
Introductory Plenary Session: Welcome
Francisco George
Director-General of Health, Portugal
- Research underpins all
Introductory Plenary Session: How can research support patient safety?
Sir Liam Donaldson
Chair, WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety
Chief Medical Officer for England
- Patient safety research in the developing world
Plenary Session: What is the patient safety research agenda? What will this conference bring you - and what will you bring to it?
David Bates
External Lead Research, WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety and Harvard University, USA
Tuesday 25 September 2007
- Learn from other industries
Plenary Session: Historical overview and looking forward
Rhona Flin
Professor of Applied Psychology, University of Aberdeen, UK
- Safety - ‘one dimension of quality'
Plenary Session: Research approaches to patient safety
Pedro Saturno Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, University of Murcia, Spain
- Don't wait for finance – just do it
Parallel Session: Networking for Patient Safety: Are European Research Networks effective in facilitating research on patient safety? Issues and opportunities.
- Network with developing and transitional countries
Parallel Session: Networking for Patient Safety: Working in developing and transitional countries: challenges and opportunities to effective collaboration with European networks
- Don't reinvent the wheel
Parallel Session: Research Commissiong: Building infrastructure and capacity
- No patient safety without patients
Parallel Session: Research Commissioning: Developing capacity and partnerships
Wednesday 26 September 2007
- 'Operation Life' in Denmark
Plenary Session: Patient safety in Denmark: What are the challenges?
Beth LiljaPedersen
Director, Danish Society for Patient Safety
- Synthesis of outcomes from Day 1 and 2
- Research central to EU health policy
Plenary Session: Health research in the European Commission
Octavi Quintana Trias
Director for Health Research, DG Research and Technology Development, European Commisson
- Beginning of a new era
Plenary Session: The Way Forward
