Welcome to the 2024 AXA Health Patient Safety Forum
We believe that by working together with providers we can help improve patient safety. The theme for this year's online meeting, taking place on 16 May, is Never Events.
Last year’s successful event discussed the importance of culture and candour in preventing avoidable harms in clinical settings, assembling clinical governance leads from the UK’s major hospital groups together with keynote speaker Henrietta Hughes, Patient Safety Commissioner.
Please find below details of this year's agenda, and biographies for our speakers.
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Time |
Subject |
Speaker/Chair |
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09:30-09:40 |
Welcome; Never Events |
Dr Pallavi Bradshaw, AXA Heath Deputy Chief Medical Officer & Forum Chair |
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09:40-10:10 |
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Dr Rosie Benneyworth, Chief Executive Officer, HSSIB |
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10:10-10:30 |
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Facilitated by Samantha Yeoman, RN, Head of Clinical Governance, Quality and Improvement |
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10:30-10:50 |
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Mr Rohana |
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10:50-11:00 |
Break |
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11:00-11:55 |
Anonymised case discussions |
Facilitated by Samantha Yeoman, RN, AXA Health |
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11:55-12:00 |
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Dr John Burke, AXA Health Chief Medical Officer |
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12:00 |
End |
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Rosie Benneyworth, interim CEO, Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB)
Rosie joined the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) in August 2022 and is now the interim Chief Executive Officer of the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB), having led the transition to the new arm’s length body.
She has a longstanding interest in improving the quality and safety of care that people receive and has held several senior leadership roles in health. This has included Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care at the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Managing Director of the Southwest Academic Health Science Network, and as a clinical commissioner with Somerset Primary Care Trust and Clinical Commissioning Group.
Rosie has a background in primary care and worked as a GP in Somerset for 15 years.
Rosie has significant non-executive experience, and is currently a non-executive director on the board of University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. She has also held roles as a non-executive director and Vice Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and a Trustee of the Nuffield Trust.
Rohana Abeywardana, Legal Director, Hill Dickinson LLP
Rohana’s specialist areas include handling clinical negligence claims for NHS Resolution, medical protection and insurers.
His prior experience includes representing medical protection members regarding GP claims and reconstructive and spinal surgery.
Rohana represents Trusts for significant value cases including wrongful birth, spinal, and brain injuries. In view of his robust approach, claims against his clients are frequently discontinued. In addition, Rohana advises on claims against manufacturers/suppliers for defective products which have caused personal injury.
Rohana regularly presents seminars to clients, writes articles and supervises more junior members of the team.
Rohana read LLB English law and French law at the University of Warwick with a French qualification from Montesquieu University, Bordeaux.
Tracy Coates RGN, Specialist Clinical Services Director & Patient Safety Specialist, Spire Healthcare
Tracy has been working at Spire Healthcare, in a Clinical Director role covering multiple specialties, since January 2019.
Previously, she worked at NHS Resolution as Safety and Learning Lead (Surgery and Perioperative Care) from March 2014, and before that appointment worked as an independent consultant undertaking commissions which included perioperative never event reviews, communication interrelations between supporting departments, perioperative service reviews and patient safety reviews.
She has also undertaken organisational education in improving practices in relation to the use of the five steps to safer surgery and never event reduction, and has an interest in human factors.
She received the Langton Hewer award for her services to anaesthesia and patient safety from the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) in September 2011, complementing her position as Patient Safety Lead for Anaesthesia at the National Patient Safety Agency, before it was streamlined into NHSE.
Tracy is a past President of the Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP) and her more than 23 years of extensive clinical experience in anaesthetics and post anaesthetic care include management, education, clinical outreach and Matron in perioperative care. Tracy has also been a specialist advisor for the Care Quality Commission.
Mr Ali Al-lami, consultant ENT/Head & Neck robotic surgeon based in Kent and the South East of England
Ali graduated from Barts & The London medical school and completed an intercalated BSc at the University of Leeds in anatomy. He developed an early interest in ENT/head & neck surgery and has won undergraduate and postgraduate prizes in the subject. After graduating, he completed a postgraduate masters with distinction in international health management & leadership at the University of Sheffield.
Ali undertook postgraduate ENT training in hospitals in Cambridge, London and across the Kent, Surrey & Sussex deanery. He completed a prestigious nationally appointed fellowship at Guy's & St. Thomas’ Hospitals where he further developed his subspecialty interest in head & neck, and trained in trans-oral robotic assisted surgery. He had specialist head and neck robotic training in the UK, France and Belgium. He brought his clinical and managerial skills to East Kent where he recently set up head & neck robotic surgery in collaboration with the urology team.
Ali is passionate about education and teaching. He is the course director of the ENT consultants exam preparation course and the ENT KSS/ PanThames registrars training days co-ordinator in the region. He supervises undergraduate robotic surgery teaching at Kent & Medway Medical School and King’s College London.