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What’s your Hospital Emergency Number?
So far we’ve identified at least 51 different internal Hospital Emergency Numbers (HEN) across Australia. Through collaborating with state health authorities NSW Health have standardised at 2222 starting in December 2018, Victoria are looking to standardise soon and several hospitals in the ACT have already upgraded to 2222. Let’s help […]
Medical Waste Art
Please send in your images. University of Wisconsin highlights the issue through medical Waste Art (see here). Toronto nurse makes fantastic medical Waste Art (see here).
Obstacles to Patient Safety
Social Conformity & Groupthink
Groupthink: A cultural phenomenon where group-self-reflection is discouraged to preserve group identity and unity. A mythical experiment is often used to illustrate groupthink – 5 hungry monkeys in a cage attack any monkey in the cage who tries to grab a banana – an experimental punishment dished out to the […]
Hospital Emergency Number
Anaphylaxis, #NAP6 and Wicked Problems – an opinion piece
Why bother with an opinion piece – everyone is entitled to their own opinion yet where it disagrees with the opinion of others it creates annoyance. So perhaps best to keep ones opinion to oneself because we are all very comfortable with the status quo thank you very much. This […]
Australian Standardisation of the Hospital Emergency Number
Welcome to the Australian Standardisation of the Hospital Emergency Number (ASHEN) web page. In 2006 the British NHS and private hospitals achieved standardisation of their hospital emergency number (crash call/cardiac arrest number) at 2222. The rest of Europe and several other countries internationally are working to follow suit with 2222. […]
Why do we resist new thinking about safety systems?
