Join us in Oxford for a one-day conference examining the impact of human factors in healthcare. Featuring renowned experts in human factors and safety, this year’s event will focus on the role of human factors in advancing education, leadership, and well-being.
📅 Date: 6th October 2025
📍 Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PL
🎟 Ticket Price: £70 (limited free tickets available for students)
Why Attend?
✔ Gain insights from leading human factors and safety experts
✔ Discover the latest strategies for enhancing education, leadership, and well-being in healthcare
✔ Network with professionals, researchers, and students in the field
✔ Participate in thought-provoking discussions and knowledge-sharing opportunities
✔ Present your work and contribute to the conversation on human factors in healthcare
This is an in-person only event with limited spaces—register now to secure your spot!
Registration
Registration fee: £70 (limited free tickets available for students)
Included in registration:
✔ Ticket to attend conference
✔ Lunch and coffee
✔ Certificate of attendance
How to register: Follow the link to register via EventBrite
Visa invitation letters available on request.
Cancellations & Refunds:
Cancellations and/or changes to registrations can be made via Eventbrite or via email to humanfactorsnetwork@gmail.com.
Full refund will be provided (minus the ticketing fee) prior to 6th September 2025. After 6th September 2025, no refund will be provided; however, substitutes are welcome at no additional cost.
The Programme
Full programme coming soon, our confirmed speakers can be found below in the meantime:
Professor Peter Brennan
Prof. Peter Brennan
Professor Peter Brennan is a Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon in Portsmouth, specialising in head and neck oncology with a personal chair for his research and education achievements, He has over 830 publications, with 80+ on patient safety and human factors. He is a committed trainer and educator. Peter won the Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT) 2022 Silver Scalpel Award – the most prestigious accolade across all UK surgical specialties for training excellence.
He has edited 10 specialty surgery textbooks and is Lead Editor of Gray’s Surgical Anatomy which receives worldwide acclaim. The book begins with a chapter on minimising error in the operating theatre.
Peter is interested in human factors (HF) and patient safety, and has established unique collaborations with HF experts, airline pilots, National Air Traffic Services (NATS) and the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team (Red Arrows). His work improves practice across surgical and medical specialties and includes reducing authority gradients, enhancing team working and raising awareness of many personal factors to reduce medical error. In 2019, he was awarded a PhD entitled ‘Applying HF to Improve Patient Safety.’ He works with the Royal Colleges, GMC, specialty associations and others to help improve patient safety and better teamworking. He promotes equality, diversity and training at every opportunity.
Professor Eva Doherty
Prof. Eva Doherty
Eva is a practising Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Associate Professor and Director of the Human Factors in Patient Safety (HFPS) training, research and assessment programmes at the National Surgical Training Centre, Department of Surgical Affairs, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland. The HFPS training is a mandatory component of the postgraduate professional training for surgical, emergency medicine, radiology and ophthalmology trainees. Each year over 100 interactive workshops and high fidelity simulation training courses are delivered to trainee doctors, doctors not currently in training and consultants on topics which include medical error, risk management, communication, teamwork, conflict resolution, decision-making, open disclosure, emotional intelligence, crisis management, stress and well-being, professionalism and leadership. Eva pioneered and directs the academic Postgraduate Diploma/MSc in Human Factors in Patient Safety which is an inter-professional one/two year part-time online programme. Eva has over 50 peer reviewed publications on topics relevant to clinical communication issues, curriculum development and personality factors in medical education and assessment. Eva acts as advisor to the National Healthcare Communication Programme in Ireland, HSE. She is a member of the ISQUA Expert Panel and the Independent National Patient Safety Council in the Department of Health. In recognition of Eva’s contribution to medical education and to communication training in healthcare, Eva was awarded a Principal Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy in the U.K. and an honorary fellowship by EACH International, the International Association for Communication in Healthcare.
Professor Kevin Turner
Prof. Kevin Turner
Kevin Turner was appointed as a Consultant Urological Surgeon in Bournemouth in 2007 and is a Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University. He trained in Urology in Oxford, Edinburgh and Melbourne. His clinical interests are in urological cancer, particularly resectional surgery for pelvic cancer and robotic / minimally invasive surgery. He was elected an Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England whilst still a trainee, was awarded the European Association of Urology Thesis Award for his research in renal cancer, and is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Urological Surgery. In 2015 he co-founded the Bournemouth Adverse Events Research Team with colleagues in the Department of Psychology at Bournemouth University. The aim of the team is to generate original research data concerning the impact of adverse events on surgeons and to develop and trial novel interventions designed to ameliorate that impact. Results of the team’s national survey have been published in the BJS and BJS Open, an RCT of the effectiveness of a resilience training intervention for surgical trainees has been completed and is in press in BMC Surgery , and in 2020 (in conjunction with RCS England) the team led the multidisciplinary panel that wrote the RCS Good Practice Guide “Supporting surgeons after adverse events”. In 2024 Kevin was appointed as national clinical lead for the RCS England SUPPORT programme which is a multi-site improvement collaborative designed to enable participating Trusts to design, deliver, sustain, and evaluate peer-peer support for surgeons.
Dr Barbara Wren
Langley Sharp MBE
Professor Kevin Fong OBE
Dr Dale Whelehan
Dr. Dale Whelehan
Dr. Dale Whelehan is a behavioural scientist and former CEO of 4 Day Week Global, a pioneering organisation driving the global movement towards reduced-hour, productivity-focused work. With a background in physiotherapy and a PhD in behavioural science, Dale’s work explores how cognitive load, fatigue, and decision-making impact performance in high-stakes environments like healthcare.
He brings a systems-thinking lens to the redesign of work and training in surgery, advocating for flexible, psychologically safe, and human-centred approaches. His research challenges traditional models of healthcare delivery, offering evidence-based insights into how we can improve both clinician wellbeing and patient outcomes through better design of the environments in which we work.
The Venue
Abstract Submission
The Committee invites authors to submit abstracts relating to Human Factors in Healthcare to be considered for inclusion in the programme. Authors must follow the guidelines for abstract submission set out below. Abstracts not conforming to these guidelines will not be considered.
Oral and ePoster presentation available.
Prizes available for the best presentations.
📅 Abstract submission deadline: 30th June 2025
Please note that conference spaces are limited, and you may wish to secure a ticket in advance of submitting an abstract. Failure to register for the conference at least 2 months before the meeting will lead to the withdrawal of the abstract.
For guidelines and to submit an abstract please follow the link:
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