Even paediatricians make mistakes: Improving child health by avoiding error traps.

Providing quality and safe health care is providing the right care, in the right place at the right time, and is particularly important for children. Join international experts in paediatrics and child health as we address quality and safety in paediatric healthcare.

Featuring:

Professor Stephen Turner did his undergraduate and paediatric training based in the North East of England between 1987 and 2003 and also spent 3.5 year in New Zealand and Western Australia during this time. Steve has been a consultant paediatrician in Aberdeen since 2003, working as a general paediatrician and a respiratory paediatrician. He became honorary professor at the University of Aberdeen in 2017. He is an author on more than 200 peer reviewed articles and currently holds £1.6m in grants.  His research interests include early origins of disease and monitoring asthma. Steve became RCPCH president in March 2024. 

Dr Peter Lachman works across many different countries and has held a range of leadership roles in quality and safety in healthcare and paediatrics. These include Director of PMSF (Patient Safety Movement Foundation) Kiani Global Interprofessional Patient Safety Fellowship, chair International Advisory Boards of CAHO (Consortium of Accredited Organisations) India, Chief Executive Officer of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare, a Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellow at IHI and was the Deputy Medical Director with the lead for Patient Safety at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Peter has practiced as a Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Free Hospital in London specialising in the challenge of long term conditions for children.

Emeritus Professor Kim Oates. Kim was the first holder of University of Sydney’s Chair of Paediatrics and Child Health (1985-1997) and subsequently, CEO of the Children’s Hospital at Westmead (1997-2006). Kim is internationally recognised as a child advocate, particularly in child abuse and neglect. He is an elected founding member of the International Academy of Quality and Safety

Dr Jacqueline Small is Chair ACAH and Chair of the Webinar. She is a developmental paediatrician in SLHD and has worked in multidisciplinary teams for children, adolescents and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities for nearly 30 years. She was RACP President from 2022-2024 and prior to that President AADDM from 2015-2022.