Peter Lachman M.D. MPH. M.B.[...]., FRCPCH, FCP (SA), FRCPI is Lead Faculty Quality Improvement at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) in Dublin, where he directs the Leadership and Quality programme to develop clinical leaders in quality improvement. He is co-founder and Chairperson of PIPSQC, the Paediatric International Patient Safety and Quality Community.

He was Chief Executive Officer of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) from 1st May 2016 to 30th April 2021. Dr Lachman was a Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellow at IHI in 2005-2006 and developed the safety programme at Great Ormond Street Hospital where he was the Deputy Medical Director with the lead for Patient Safety. He was also a Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Free Hospital in London specialising in the challenge of long term conditions for children.

Dr. Anita Jayadev qualified from St. Bartholomews School of Medicine and Dentistry in London in 2005 and works as a respiratory consultant with an interest in sleep medicine. She has led several projects and developed new services to improve patient safety and care. Her achievements were recognised by the HSJ and she was awarded 'Rising Star in the NHS award' during her training and won the BMJ patient safety team of the year award during her Darzi Fellowship at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She continues to work as the clinical Quality Improvement lead at Wexham Park Hospital and is the Trust Sepsis lead.

Dr. John Brennan is a General Practitioner and was awarded a Diploma in Quality Improvement in Healthcare and Patient Safety with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) in 2017. He served as Quality Improvement Scholar in Residence with the RCPI and the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) in 2016/17. As well as being an ISQua Fellow and Board Member, John currently works with the RCPI in designing and delivering Quality Improvement and Patient Safety education across a number of platforms, including in collaboration with the Health Service Executive. He is lead QI Faculty for the National COPD Improvement Collaborative in Ireland.

Dr. John Fitzsimons is a Paediatrician at Children's University Hospital, Temple St and Clinical Director with the Health Service Executive's (HSE) National Quality Improvement Team. He graduated from University College Dublin in 1996. He trained as a Patient Safety Officer with the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and was a fellow of the Improvement Faculty at the NHS Institute for Improvement & Innovation before returning to work in Ireland in 2010. He is course co-director of the Quality Improvement and Leadership Programme which has been run in partnership between the HSE and the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (RCPI) since 2011.

Dr Jane Runnacles MBBS MA MRCPCH PGcert (healthcare leadership).

Jane is a Consultant in Ambulatory Paediatrics at St George's hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London and clinical governance lead for her department. She has an interest in acute paediatrics, simulation and quality improvement (QI). During her postgraduate training in London, she was awarded distinction in her MA in clinical education and spent a year as a Darzi clinical leadership fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Jane is a Training Programme Director for the London School of Paediatrics and leads their leadership and QI education programmes.

• Part 1 Introduction to science and theory of patient safety


• 1: Peter Lachman and John Fitzsimons: The Rationale and science of Patient Safety


• 2: Ahmeda Ali and John Fitzsimons: The Culture and system of Patient Safety


• 3: Blair L. Sadler and Peter Lachman: Transparent Leadership for safety


• 4: John Brennan, Eugene Nelson, Sibylle Erdmann and Margaret Murphy: Codesigning for Safety and Patients Leading for Safety


• 5: James F O'Mahony: The Economics of Patient Safety


• 6: Patricia O'Connor: Developing a Safe Clinical Team


• 7: David Crosby and Peter Lachman: Communicating to be Safe


• 8: Eoin Fitzgerald and Peter Lachman: Situation Awareness and patient safety


• 9: Thomas Jun and Sue Hignett: Practical Application of Human Factors and ergonomics to Improve Safety


• 10: Uma Kotagal and Peter Lachman: Reliability Theory and its application in daily work and standardisation


• 11: Kate Churruca, Robyn Clay-Williams, Janet C Long, Louise A Ellis and Jeffrey Braithwaite: Resilience Theory, Complexity Science and Safety 2


• Part 2 Practical application and methodologies of patient safety


• 12: Jason Leitch and Thomas Lamont: Measuring Patient Safety at a System, Organisation and National Level


• 13: Jane Runnacles and John Fitzsimons: How to Measure Patient Safety on the Front Line


• 14: Peter Lachman, Susanne O'Reilly, Michael Marx and John Brennan: Improving to be Safe


• 15: Adrian Plunkett: Learning from Success to be safer


• 16: Kevin Stewart and Rachel Pool: Investigating and learning from Adverse Events


• 17: Mark O'Brien and Pallavi Bradshaw: Open Disclosure


• 18: Kris Vanhaecht: Caring for the Caregivers - The Second Victim


• Part 3 Translating theory to clinical practice


• 19: Christopher Cornue: Safety and information technology


• 20: Frank Frederico: Enabling Medication Safety


• 21: James Hoffman and Kristen Hughes: Paediatric medication safety


• 22: Rob Cunney: Preventing and Decreasing Infections


• 23: Rob Cunney: Sepsis and Antimicrobial stewardship


• 24: Anita Jayadev, Karen Britton and Shefal Patel:: Detecting and Limiting Deterioration


• 25: Tricia Woodhead and Gail Nielsen: Preventing and Limiting Diagnostic Error


• 26: John Brennan: Safety in Primary Care and General Practice


• 27: Damian Roland and Jay Banerjee: Safety in the Emergency Department


• 28: Anita Jayadev and Sean Harding: Safety in Outpatients and Ambulatory Care


• 29: Rob Bethune: Safety in the operating theatre


• 30: Jane Runnacles: Safety in Paediatrics and Child Health


• 31: David Crosby: Safety in Maternity and Women's Health


• 32: Daniel Hayes: Safety in Mental Health


• 33: Kevin Rooney and Suying Ong: Safety in Intensive Care


• 34: Kirstyn James: Safety in Patients with Frailty and Complex Long-Term Conditions


• 35: Kieran Murray and Michael Marx: Safety in a multi-disciplinary team


• 36: Kevin O'Hare: Safety in the laboratory


• 37: Riccardo Trataglia, Micaela La Regina and Peter Lachman: Safety in a pandemic