About this event

  • Date and time Fri 22 Jan 2021 from 7:00pm to 8:00pm
  • Location Online
  • Organised by Students, Patient Safety

Effective communication among healthcare professionals is a simple but powerful tool to drive change. In this episode, we will explore the importance of referrals and handovers. 

Dr Charles Coughlan, an Internal Medicine Trainee at UCLH, will discuss the importance of effective clinical handovers and how to improve them. Learn about structured tools, such as SBAR, that can help to facilitate safe handovers, involving patients and carers, and the potential impact of QI projects on handovers in hospital and community settings.

This series is organised in association with the Patient Safety Section and the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM).

Registration for this webinar will close 2 hours prior to the start time. You will receive the webinar link 2 hours before the meeting. Late registrations will not be accepted. 

This webinar is available for on-demand viewing. The webinar recording will be available for registered delegates up to 30 days after the live webinar broadcast via Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the webinar takes place. 

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This webinar is a part of a series, QI scholars. Hear directly from junior doctors and consultants from various specialties on the essential knowledge around QI and their personal experience of carrying out QI projects (QIPs). If you would like to find out more about the series, please visit the Students Section homepage.

Key speakers

Charles Coughlan

Dr Charles Coughlan

Internal Medicine Trainee, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, School of Public Health, Imperial College London

Speaker's biography

Dr Charles Coughlan is a junior doctor working in London, with interests in medical education, infectious diseases and quality improvement across whole systems. He has previously developed a quality improvement education pilot for students at the University of Cambridge and published articles on quality improvement in journals such as BMC Medical Education and the British Medical Journal.   

Agenda

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Welcome and introduction

Ms Akiko Fukui, Graduate Medical Student, St George's Medical School, President, IHI St George's, and RSM Student Section Council Member

Referrals and handovers

Dr Charles Coughlan, Internal Medicine Trainee, University College London Hospitals, and Honorary Clinical, Research Fellow, Imperial College London 

Question and answer session
Close of webinar

Location

Online

Disclaimer: All views expressed in this webinar are of the speakers themselves and not of the RSM nor the speaker's organisations. 

Special rates for difficult times
The RSM wishes to offer healthcare professionals continued learning opportunities during the coronavirus pandemic. The RSM’s weekly COVID-19 Series webinars remain free of charge, while there will be small charges to register for other online education. These fees will enable the RSM to continue its programme of activities and will apply during the course of the pandemic.

Registration for this webinar will close 2 hours prior to the start time. You will receive the webinar link 2 hours before the meeting. Late registrations will not be accepted.

All webinars will be available for registered delegates 30 days after on Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the webinar takes place. 

This webinar will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels. 

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