Achieving a Culture of Candour: Freedom to Speak Up

This Conference is now Closed

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Freedom to Speak Up places patient safety first and is essential to delivering high quality care.

The NHS Staff Survey published in March 2023 found that there were declines on all measures relating to raising concerns, both relating to raising concerns about clinical safety and speaking up more generally. The greatest deterioration was seen in the percentage of staff who would feel secure raising concerns about unsafe clinical practice.

  • 61.5% feel safe to speak up about anything that concerns them in their organisation…48.7% were confident that their organisation would address their concern
  • 71.9% would feel secure raising concerns about unsafe clinical practice…were confident that their organisation would address their concern

Join this timely conference to hear how you can better support your staff to speak up and feel safe to share any concerns they may have.

Speaking up is about speaking up about anything that gets in the way of doing a great job.

Freedom to Speak Up Guardian’s Office 2023

Leaders need to be addressing their culture and their behaviours related to workers being able to speak up.

Jayne Chidgey-Clark, National Guardian for the NHS in England May 2022

The conference will enable you to:

  • Network with colleagues who are working to support people to speak up and raise concerns
  • Reflect on national developments and learning
  • Achieve a Culture of Candour & Freedom to Speak Up
  • Establish effective leadership and management behaviours
  • Understand the legal context
  • Develop your skills in ensuring all staff within the trust feel able to raise any issues or concerns, or challenge any wrongdoing
  • Learn from outstanding practice in developing the role of the Freedom to Speak Up Guardian
  • Identify key strategies for celebrating diversity in the workforce and ensure challenge when diversity is not embraced 
  • Understand how you can improve culture and psychological safety
  • Ensure an effective response to raised concerns, and ensure change occurs
  • Deliver transformational change of the culture of fear and blame
  • Self assess and reflect on your own practice
  • Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training forCPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes

Chair and Speakers include

Amrat Khorana

Trustee
Action Against Medical Accidents

Dr Jayne Chidgey-Clark

National Guardian
NHS

Exhibition & Sponsorship Packages

This conference offers a valuable opportunity for industry suppliers to personally meet with their target audience where they will have time to talk and demonstrate the benefits of their products. High quality specialist audiences make having a presence at our events a highly targeted and cost effective marketing channel.

Why Exhibit?

Having a presence at this event will give you the opportunity to:

  • Demonstrate your product, system or service
  • Network and engage with your key audience  
  • Generate new business leads
  • Gain exposure for your brand and raise the profile of your organisation
  • Understand the current needs of your audience and challenges they’re facing
  • Update your knowledge of national policy and local developments  

Enquire

Contact Carolyn Goodbody for exhibition and sponsorship prices, or to discuss a tailored package to suit your needs and budget.

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