[huge_it_maps id=”9″]   It’s great to see so many hospitals supporting the #TheatreCapChallenge. Please keep putting your photos on social media with the hashtag #TheatreCapChallenge – we’ll keep adding to the map and the gallery below. Together we’ll create the best environment for patient care. For more information on the […]

Senior Nurse – ‘Your favourite person’s here today’ Me – ‘Who’s that’ Senior Nurse – ‘Infection Control’ Me – ‘Okay’ Senior Nurse – ‘Well would you mind wearing a disposable cap over the one you’re wearing because we’re being audited’ Me – ‘Yes I would mind. The evidence indicates no […]

Do the ACORN Standards in relation to theatre caps cause unnecessary environmental, financial and patient harm? Should we find better rules based on the best available evidence and developed through collaboration to provide better patient care? ’A few years ago, the Dean of the School of Business at the University […]

To Dave or to Dr David Smith? That is the question. Those who’ve read Don Norman’s book ‘The Design of Everyday Things’ will recall the need to respect cultural differences in the process of design.  Don relays how different cultures lay out a deck of cards dependent on their cultural […]