It’s been a healthy last couple of weeks.
I attended a “Patient Harm Conference” last week (provocative title, eh?) – organised by Tricordant, for the NHS and a number of health-related organisations all focused on improving patient safety. I had the privilege of hearing leadership speaker Alistair Mant discuss complex systems (using frogs and bicycles) the subject of Judgement (not in the biblical sense – that’s another story!)
Alistair came out with a couple of quotes which made me think:
Judgement is what you do when you don’t know (and can’t know) what to do – and you know you need to do something fast!
Good judgement is based on experience;
experience is based on bad judgement…
I guess I’d better be the judge of that!
May 15, 2007 at 10:55 am
Was there anyone there from the National Patient safety Agency? I wish I’d known about this, I would have loved to have come!
May 17, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Hi Clive,
Yes, Joan Russell (Safer Practice Lead) was on the list of delegates.
June 1, 2007 at 3:18 am
Clive – sorry you missed out on what was an good day. If you go to our website http://www.tricordant.com there is a link to a brief report, presentations and associated articles from the day. If you want to know anymore then contact Alistair via the website.
Tim
June 1, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Oh, excellent. Thanks for letting me know about the site and I’ll have a word with Joan next week.
July 19, 2007 at 11:32 am
Isn’t this what Gladwell’s Blink is about?