Dr Helen Meese to raise profile of biomedical engineers at Patient First 2016

The Institution’s Head of Healthcare, Dr Helen Meese, will be speaking at this year’s national secondary care conference Patient First on Tuesday 22 November.

Run in association with NHS Improvement, Sign up to Safety and the AHSN Network, Patient First aims to bring front line staff together with managers and policy makers, focusing on practical solutions around patient centric care, the drive for efficiency saving, and patient safety. Helen will be highlighting ‘Engineering Patient Safety: Finding Cost Savings through Effective Technology Implementation’ and once again raising the profile and indeed benefit of introducing chief biomedical engineers into each NHS trust.

View the full conference programme covering strategy and policy, safety through technology, infection prevention and control, quality improvement and best practice..

Register for a fully subsidised place

We are delighted to have been allocated a number of education grants to allow ten members to attend free of charge. Please visit the website and complete the online registration form using voucher code: PF-IME-16 to waive the £399 + VAT fee before they run out!

Helen would be extremely pleased to hear from members planning to attend the conference and any views they might have of the issues surrounding Patient Safety.  She can be contacted at healthcare@imeche.org.