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Preventing Harm to Ourselves and Colleagues
‘Preventing Harm and Transforming Lives’ is a title which can be applied as much to ourselves and colleagues as well as to patients. In an increasing complex digital healthcare world, intense focus on performance, scrunity of results and budgets the pressure on orthopaedic surgeons is great. Time pressures, safety checks, frustration, emotions and stress can add to severe impact on our well being and performance.
In this session we address some of the issues around orthopaedic surgeons mental and physical well being. Burnout is one of the worries associated with work pressure and Ben Caesar will look at issues surrounding this. Scrutiny of individual and unit outcomes including National Joint Registry / NCIP and external reviews can lead to added pressure for surgeons labelled as ‘outliers’ and Rhidian Morgan Jones, Mike Reed and Tim Wilton will look at the processes and results surrounding this. Finally, what happens if a colleague is physically incapable to work? Alex Hazlerigg will share her experiences of suffering a significant orthopaedic injury on the effects of her work as hand surgeons.
All are welcome, and encouraged to attend to help prevent harm to ourselves and our orthopaedic colleagues.