WORKING PARTY ON QUALITY & SAFETY INTRODUCING HUMAN FACTOR SCIENCE IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE

The WONCA Working Party on Quality and Safety held a 1.5-hour webinar on introductiontohumanfactorsandtheroleof thisscienceinprimaryhealthcare

ToimplementtheWHOGlobalPatientSafety ActionPlan2021-2030strategy24requiresa strongHumanFactorsperspectiveandinput from primary health care in order to strengthen the resilience of primary care organizationsandclinicalpractices.

This free webinar for healthcare professionals, policy makers, researchers, and medical educators, aimed to explain what human factor science is, how it affects primary health care and Understand shared lessons on human factors from other highriskindustries,suchasaviation

The session was hosted by Prof. Jose M Valderas, Chair of WONCA Working Party on Quality and Safety, Head Division of Family Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Singapore, and Dr Maud Nauta, GP and WONCAWorkingPartyonQualityandSafety leadonHumanFactors

Theprogrammeincluded:

Introduction: Human factors in Primary HealthCare-whatdoesitmean?

Speaker:DrMaudNautaMRCGPMASPatient SafetyandHealthcareQuality,HumanFactor TrainerandWONCAWorkingPartyonQuality and Safety lead on Human Factors, Affiliate Member Chartered Institute of Ergonomics andHumanFactors

Using a Human Factors Approach to Improve Electronic Health Record (EHR) useinPrimaryCare.

Speaker: John W Beasley MD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Family Medicine, and Community Health, University of WisconsinandHonoraryAssociateUniversity of Wisconsin School of Engineering, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

Lessons learned from Human Factor integrationinAviation.

Speaker: Peter Nataraj, Senior First Officer, and Human Factor Trainer Commercial Aviation

A second webinar is planned for 2023: onhowpracticialhumanfactortoolkits can help in day-to-day primary health care practice. Stay tunned for more informationandregistrationdetails.