Atrainability Human Factors Team Training

Government response to the Francis Report March 26 2013 (from the BBC News website)

•  Duty of candour to be placed on NHS boards to be honest about mistakes. Atrainability can educate in how errors occur and how to learn from them. This can aid understanding and promote safety and efficiency 
• Consideration being given to making individual doctors and nurses criminally responsible for covering up errors. Atrainability have the skills and tools to train and coach managers and teams to create and maintain a safe open 'just' culture where openness is actively encouraged.
• New ratings system for hospitals and care homes based on Ofsted scheme used in schools. Atrainability  educate observable, objective effective behaviour that promotes safe team performance.
• Managers who fail in their jobs to be barred from holding such positions in the future. Atrainability educate all levels of management from Board level down in how high reliability professions maintain safe efficient individual and team working practice. 

In the aftermath of the Francis Report into the failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust it is clear that Human Factors are at the core of Patient Safety Performance. Care and compassion are primary features of our training programmes. Our programmes are tailor made to maximise learning to motivate and re-energise teams to achieve their highest potential performance. 

The key issues are training and education so the team members understand their own frailties and can adapt to safe research-proven skills and practical tools. 

A  Safe, Just, Open reporting Culture is crucial and Atrainability can train and support the total team from workplace to Board level.

We at Atrainability are dedicated to High Quality, More Efficient, More Productive, Resilient teams and individuals. We are passionate about sustainable Safety and bring innovative practical well proven tools to achieve it.

At the heart of problems in any teams lie breakdowns in non-technical team skills. These fall into two categories - social and cognitive. Social skills are Leadership and Cooperation and Management. Cognitive skills are Situation Awareness, Decision Making and Risk Assessment. All of these are underpinned by effective Communication skills and have observable objective behaviours, indicating effective or ineffective team working.

Within less resilient teams there are frequently failures to accept collective responsibility and an observable tendency to allow the Leader or another individual to take the blame.

Atrainability is the Premier provider of Human Factors training in the UK. Founded in continuing research with the University of Oxford and developed over 20 years in aviation and across the spectrum of healthcare this training and coaching makes teams safer, more productive and happier resulting in fewer errors, rule violations and reduced staff turnover.

These factors apply equally to teams however small or sizeable in any area of life from High Tech to Low Tech - Clinical, Emergency Services, Social work, Aviation, Customer Service, throughout the Corporate World and Legal. 

Atrainability for :

• Quality training to improve safer more efficient team outcome
• Innovative techniques to motivate and empower your teams to overcome inappropriate behaviour and make more effective teams
• Productive enhancements for saving time between procedures by planning and briefing at the start of the day and debriefing post-hoc to seize team ideas
• Prevention of avoidable error and reduction of rule and procedure violation