Experts will discuss staff safety, workloads, mental health, and safety culture.
A former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care will join a panel of experts at the International Council of Nurses annual congress next month.
Former Health Secretary and Conservative MP Jeremy Hunt will join the panel of experts to discuss the challenges that nurses face in their daily practice as well as in emergency situations affecting the safety of their patients and the possible ways to avoid harm in health care.
It will also explore staff safety and safe working environments, staff workload and mental health, leadership and safety culture, teamwork and communication as well as patients’ engagement.
The session will also include Dr Neelam Dhingra-Kumar, Unit Head, WHO Patient Safety Flagship; Irina Papieva, Technical Officer, WHO; Carey McCarthy, Technical Officer, WHO, and Elizabeth Iro, Chief Nursing Officer, WHO.
He was elected as Chair of the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee in January 2020.
Patient safety.
Mr. Hunt is most well-known for the cuts to the NHS student bursary which happened during his time as health secretary.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) voted to rejoin the ICN earlier this year, at an estimated cost of several hundred thousand pounds.
A press release announcing the plans reads; “The WHO Patient Safety session is one of three sessions at the ICN Congress which will be organised by WHO.
“The two others will focus on the International Year of the Health and Care Worker: Time to Protect. Invest. Together. and on the Strategic Directions for Nursing and Midwifery 2021-2025.
“High profile experts from WHO will also take part in other plenary sessions throughout the Congress, with Dr Maria van Kerkhove, WHO COVID-19 Technical Lead, taking part in a panel session on The COVID-19 pandemic: The global response and lessons learnt to prevent future pandemics and WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus giving a keynote session on the final day of the Congress.
