Patient Safety / Simulation and Ergonomics

So up until now my blogs have focussed on the individual elements of patient safety, simulation and human factors but not really brought them together into a unified piece of work - so here we are - what does Patient, Safety and Human Factors have in common and how can they collaborate to improve patient safety? This actually is very timely too, as it links to the recent Opening Doors (link)  publication from the CQC recognising that we are not reducing Never Events and signalling the need for an improved safety culture and the fact that NHSI are currently developing a Patient Safety Strategy link that aims to half avoidable harm in the NHS. What is clear is that there is some really good examples of good practice and activity going on within NHS organisations but there seems to be a lack of a way to scale up and share these. I do also think this is not just an issue for or with NHS organisations as indeed the same culture exists, and to an extent is reinforced,