ISQua, in association with the National Patient Safety Office (NPSO), the Department of Health and the HSE, presents an international collaborative workshop on the ‘Implementation of the HSE’s Patient Safety Strategy 2019 – 2024’ on Thursday, 30th March 2023, in the Department of Health, Miesian Plaza, Dublin.
This one-day event will focus on the implementation of the HSE’s Patient Safety 2019-2024 Strategy. It will include presentations and workshops by leading clinicians and academics in the field of patient safety.
Workshop Agenda
Start Time | End Time | Topic | Speaker(s) |
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10:00 | 10:30 | Coffee | |
10:30 | 10:40 | Opening Presentation | Dept of Health & HSE Speakers |
10:40 | 11:10 | Irish Health Care as a Learning Health System: Macro, Meso, and Micro Considerations | Jeffrey Braithwaite, PhD, FIML, FCHSM, FFPHRCP, FAcSS, Hon FRACMA, FAHMSNHMRC Leadership Fellow; Professor of Health Systems Research, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Founding Director, Australian Institute of Health Innovation; Director, Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science; President, International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) |
11:10 | 11:40 | Creating a Culture of Patient Safety in a Fragmented Health System | Ezequiel García-Elorrio MD MSc MBA PhD; Director, Departamento de Calidad Seguridad del Paciente y Gestión Clínica/ Director Health Care Quality and Patient Safety, Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria/ Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy; President-Elect, International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) |
11:40 | 12:20 | Workshop: Brainstorming session based on HSE Patient Safety Strategy | Facilitators to be confirmed |
12:20 | 12:50 | Panel Discussion | Jeffrey Braithwaite, Ezequiel García-Elorrio and Moderator |
12:50 | 13:50 | Lunch | |
13:50 | 14:10 | Empowering and Engaging Patients to Improve Patient Safety | Carsten Engel, CEO, International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) |
14:10 | 14:30 | Patient Safety in Practice; Safer Care in the Community | John Brennan, Board Member, International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua); General Practitioner, Ireland |
14:30 | 15:00 | Workshop: Brainstorming session based on HSE Patient Safety Strategy | Facilitators to be confirmed |
15:00 | 15:30 | Panel Discussion | Carsten Engel, John Brennan and Moderator |
15:30 | 15:45 | Summary and points of the day to be brought forward to the Autumn HSE Patient Safety Conference | Jeffrey Braithwaite |
15:45 | 16:00 | Closing Presentation | To be confirmed |
Speakers

Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, BA, MIR (Hons), MBA, DipLR, PhD, FIML, FCHSM, FFPHRCP (UK), FAcSS (UK), Hon FRACMA, FAHMS is Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Director of the Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, and Professor of Health Systems Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
He has appointments at six other universities internationally, and he is a board member and President of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) and a consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO).
His research examines the changing nature of health systems, which has attracted funding of more than AUD $111 million. He is particularly interested in health care as a complex adaptive system, and applying complexity science to health care problems. Professor Braithwaite has contributed over 450 refereed publications, and has presented at international and national conferences on more than 900 occasions, including 90 keynote addresses.
His research appears in journals such as The BMJ, JAMA, The Lancet, Social Science & Medicine, BMJ Quality and Safety, and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care. He has received over 40 different national and international awards for his teaching and research.