Course Details

Patient safety is paramount to clinical practice. This can include learning from deviations in normal clinical care i.e. safety incidents (which include adverse events). Safety incidents can be recorded and analysed using incident reporting and learning systems to improve patient safety.

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    Incident Reporting and Learning within Chiropractic [1pt/CPD hr]

    • Incident Reporting and Learning within Chiropractic [1pt/CPD hr]

    • Assessment: Incident Reporting and Learning within Chiropractic [1pt/CPD hr]

Course Learning Outcomes

After completion of this module, participants will:

1) Define patient safety incidents and adverse events.
2) Contrast incident reporting systems within the chiropractic profession.
3) Apply the principles of incident reporting and learning.
4) Integrate knowledge of chiropractic safety incidents into your clinical reasoning.

Instructor

Chiropractor

Mark Thomas

Mark qualified as a chiropractor in 2009 from the Welsh Institute of Chiropractic (University of South Wales) and worked for five years in private practice. Following his time in private practice, Mark worked as a rehabilitation consultant for a private medical insurance company setting up an advanced practitioner telephonic triage service. From 2016 to 2018, he led a multidisciplinary physical therapy team in a private hospital in Kent (KIMS Hospital). Mark qualified as a chiropractor in 2009 from the Welsh Institute of Chiropractic (University of South Wales) and worked for five years in private practice. Following his time in private practice, Mark worked as a rehabilitation consultant for a private medical insurance company setting up an advanced practitioner telephonic triage service. From 2016 to 2018, he led a multidisciplinary physical therapy team in a private hospital in Kent (KIMS Hospital). Mark joined London South Bank University (LSBU) in 2018 as a full time academic and is currently the Professional Lead and Course Director. At LSBU, Mark has been involved in the development and implementation of a new MChiro programme which saw its first cohort of students graduate in summer 2022. Mark is a part-time PhD student at LSBU investigating ‘attitudes and beliefs about manual therapy held by patients experiencing low back pain’. In addition, Mark is chair of the Chiropractic Patient Incident Reporting and Learning System (CPiRLS) development group at the Royal College of Chiropractors (RCC).