GGI National NHS NED Development Programme: Peer to Peer Weekly Meeting with Helen Hughes | 18 March 2022

As part of its mission to promote good governance, GGI will host these facilitated, weekly virtual meetings to give NHS non-executive directors an opportunity to share their concerns, challenges and ideas as we rethink the future of health and social care. The goal is to collectively think about the role NEDs play as part of the controlling mind of their organisations, to discuss immediate safeguarding issues and to ensure we all learn from this experience to assure better outcomes for citizens in the future. If you would like to join this meeting, please email events@good-governance.org.uk.

ABOUT

Host: Professor Andrew Corbett-Nolan, Chief Executive, Good Governance Institute

Chair: Dr Usman Khan, GGI Special Advisor, Good Governance Institute

In Conversation with: Helen Hughes, Chief Executive of Patient Safety Learning

'Getting Boards to deliver on Patient Safety'

Patient safety has been moving up the Board agenda in recent years, yet it remains the case that avoidable deaths still equate to the loss of a
aeroplane each and every week. In this session Helen Hughes will discuss how Boards can change their culture and practice to integrate
patient safety into their agendas.

• What role can standards play in the patient safety agenda?
• How can the patient perspective be made integral to patient safety?
• What can we learn from other sectors about patient safety?
• What are the checklist questions all Boards should be thinking about in relation to patient safety?

About Helen Hughes

Helen is Chief Executive of Patient Safety Learning.

Helen's passion for improved patient safety is informed by personal family insight into the impact of unsafe care and the ineffectiveness of organisational responses to learn from error.

Helen is an experienced leader in organisational effectiveness and transformational change. She has held leadership roles in healthcare in the UK and the WHO, the National Patient Safety Agency, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Parliamentary Health Services Ombudsman and the Charity Commission.

Helen’s previous leadership roles in patient safety include, as Director of Operations of the National Patient Safety Agency, designing the first patient safety infrastructure and policy framework for the NHS in England, and Director of the National Reporting and Learning System. At the WHO, she held a range of roles, including partnership and patient safety programme management and executive lead of the global ‘Patients For Patient Safety’ programme.

Helen Chairs a Charity, Solace Women's Aid.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This meeting is by invitation and is open to all NHS Non-Executives Directors, Chairs and Associate Non-Executive Directors of NHS Providers. Others may attend by special invitation.

For further details, comments, questions and suggestions please contact: events@good-governance.org.uk