With fourteen years experience of supporting healthcare teams across a range of settings I bring a broad range of skills and qualifications.
I pride myself on taking a facilitative approach, enabling teams to identify opportunities for improvement whilst developing their own capabilities for future projects.
Key skills;
Human factors - specialising in complex adaptive systems
Appreciative inquiry
Quality improvement methods and practice
Measurement for improvement
Healthcare ethics including promoting autonomy and personalised care
Previous projects include;
Understanding the work as done of incident investigators, enabling greater appreciation of positive adaptations for safety
Improving recognition and response to sepsis
Identifying facilitators of staff wellbeing to improve retention rates
Applying human factors thinking to safeguarding practice and reviews
Developing and delivering in depth human factors training relevant to staff across healthcare systems
Enabling teams to overcome system barriers to shared decision making
Supporting implementation of NICE guidelines in primary care
About Me - Brook Howells
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Technical member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors
MSc Human Factors and Ergonomics
Loughborough University
Postgraduate Certificate in Innovation and Improvement Science
Lancaster University
MA Applied Ethics
University of York
Qualifications