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Human Performance Issues: Why They Arise and Tools to Manage Them

One of the human’s great strengths is its adaptability. This endows us with resilience in changing situations or circumstances never before experienced. However, this same adaptability can be unpredictable, leading to uncertainty of outcomes and ultimately risk. What are human performance issues? In our previous article we explored the main principles of human performance and […]

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The Principles of Human Performance: Enhancing Safety in Healthcare and Beyond

We humans have gleefully embraced rapidly advancing science and technology, which is perhaps strange because inside us, and crucially inside our brains, little has changed in thousands of years. Essentially, we are cavemen and women equipped with laptops and mobile phones. Simple creatures driven by the same needs we have always needed, armed with the

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Human performance – issues and insights – an interview with Jo Gillespie

Patient safety and human factors – an interview with Jo Gillespie

Patient safety and human factors We caught up with Jo Gillespie, former airline pilot and aviation safety expert, to discuss how understanding the link between patient safety and human factors has revolutionised the approach to safety in aviation. He suggests that now is the time for healthcare to learn lessons from other industries to improve

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