Jeremy Hunt is right to be careful that NHS repair should not come at the expense of patient safety (thirty -seven patients die every day in NHS. Change is good, but patient safety must come first, March 24). But if the WES Street is supposed to succeed where others fail, then we must look beyond the structural re -expression and focus on what the patients are really safe – how the clinical difference performs under pressure.
Non -technical skills, including awareness of the situation and the coordination of the team and the leadership are not optional additions; It is decisive for safe care. Two decades of behavioral science have constantly showed that the collapses in these skills are related to patients with patients. Nevertheless, health care systems were slow to support the front -to -a -lines teams with systematic methods to measure and improve clinical performance.
The high -performance difference flourishes on reactions. At Edinburgh University, we study Surgical Sabermetrics, a data science approach to understand the performance of the clinical team using sensors that can be worn and video analysis. Inspired by the techniques developed to improve performance in Elite Sports and Spaceflight, our goal is to include the same culture of continuous health care.
NHS staff deserves to be treated as an elite endurance. Our vision must be for a future as the data -based clinical distinction is constantly advancing the standards and safety of patients.
If Streeting reforms are the provision of NHS safer and more sustainable, it must include learning based on the team, informed data at the heart of care, not only in the upper part of the system.
Professor Stephen Yol
Head of behavioral sciences, Edinburgh University
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