ASPiH conference to host film premiere from Martin Bromiley

A new independent film, which reflects on the progress made to address human factors in healthcare in the 10 years since Elaine Bromiley died after ‘a routine operation’ went badly wrong, will premiere at the Annual ASPiH conference to be held at the Brighton Conference Centre, 3-5 November 2015.

Elaine Bromiley’s death in 2005 sparked an extraordinary campaign - led by her husband Martin, an airline pilot - to raise awareness of the role of human factors in healthcare. A key element of the initiative was a short film about the family’s experience.

This introduced a generation of healthcare professionals to ‘clinical human factors’, and has been used extensively in the UK NHS as well as in many other healthcare systems around the world.

Over the past year, Martin has been working with Murray Anderson-Wallace, a specialist in healthcare communications and Executive Producer of www.patientstories.org.uk, to make a new independent film, which reflects on the progress made by the Clinical Human Factors Group in the 10 years since Elaine died.

The new film explores the future agenda for human factors in healthcare, including the role of simulation in education, training and error modelling. It features interviews with leaders in the field, including: Dr Ken Catchpole, Professor Bryn Baxendale and Dr Nick Woodier.

The annual ASPiH conference focuses on simulated practice within healthcare and the 2015 event, to be held at the Brighton Conference Centre in November, has been chosen to premiere this new film.

The linking of human factors training into simulated practice is now accepted as vital in changing behaviours, improving performance and increasing patient safety. Producer Murray Anderson-Wallace will be on hand to discuss issues arising from the film with interested delegates. He will also launch details of a developing series of educational films designed to support learning about human factors in healthcare.

For full details of the conference visit ASPiH 2015