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CATEGORIES:Engineering Design Centre Seminars 
SUMMARY:What has Engineering Design to say about Healthcar
 e Improvement? - Professor John Clarkson (Universi
 ty of Cambridge)
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/80371
DESCRIPTION:From firefighting to a systems approach for health
  and care improvement\, over the past two decades\
 , there have been numerous references to the value
  of a systems approach in calls to transform healt
 h and care\, without there being a common understa
 nding of what this might mean. However\, many peop
 le working to improve health and care are aware of
  and use systems techniques\, leading to improved 
 pathways\, processes and patient experience in man
 y areas. Healthcare leaders know intuitively that 
 there is a need to involve stakeholders in decisio
 ns\, think across pathways and deliver integrated 
 care\, but lessons can be learned from the analysi
 s and rigour applied in complex engineering system
 s. \n\nI will reflect on my personal experience of
  acquiring the knowledge and skills of the systems
  engineer whilst working as a technology consultan
 t and more recently as a researcher in engineering
  design. Through stories of firefighting\, beer\, 
 inhalation devices and micromorts I will explore t
 he engineer’s world of systems design and risk.\n\
 nI will then describe a unique project\, based on 
 an extended conversation within a forum of systems
  engineers\, health and care professionals\, quali
 ty improvement experts and patient representatives
 \, to develop a new and integrated approach to gui
 de service design and improvement in health and ca
 re. This project\, led by the Royal Academy of Eng
 ineering\, in collaboration with the Royal College
  of Physicians and the Academy of Medical Sciences
 \, brought together ideas from engineering and hea
 lth and care to define a new framework for improve
 ment.\n\nFinally\, I will present this new framewo
 rk\, focusing on the language and terms developed 
 with the health and care professionals. A systems 
 approach will be described as a standalone set of 
 questions\, with reference to systems\, design\, r
 isk and people thinking\, and as a design ‘spiral’
  borrowed from the world of ship design. The talk 
 will conclude with reflections on the value of pur
 suing engineering design research in health and ca
 re and highlight some of the opportunities and cha
 llenges ahead.\n\n
LOCATION:Sir Arthur Marshalls\, CUED
CONTACT:Mari Huhtala
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