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This Hospital at Night Summit focuses on out of hours care in hospitals, delivering high quality safe care at night, and supporting the wellbeing of those working at night. Through national updates, networking opportunities and case studies this conference provides a practical guide to delivering a high-quality hospital at night service and transforming out of hours services and roles to improve patient safety. The 2024 conference will focus on developing an effective Hospital at Night service and focus on the practicalities of supporting staff at night, improving wellbeing, and fighting fatigue.
“For acute services to be judged safe, they have to be safe 24/7”
NHS England
“Sleep-deprived staff have more attentional failures and make more clinical errors. When you are tired you become less able to judge your own performance. You may not even realize you are making mistakes. Exhaustion erases recent learning and has been shown to decrease the ability of junior doctors to make correct diagnoses.”
Tyneside Integrated Musculoskeletal Service
“We want to change attitudes across the NHS to ensure everyone understands the risks of fatigue and how to mitigate against them. We hope that by taking responsibility collectively for making changes to working practice, we can improve working conditions for all staff which will in turn benefit patient care.”
Dr Kathleen Ferguson, Association of Anaesthetists, President and Consultant Anaesthetist at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to improve Hospital at Night Practice
Learn from recent developments in Out-of-Hours hospital care
Improve your skills in the recognition management and escalation of deteriorating patients at night
Understand and evaluate different models for Hospital at Night
Examine the role of task management solutions for Hospital at Night, including handover and observations
Ensure effective and safe staffing at night
Improve and support the wellbeing of hospital at night staff
Examine Hospital at Night team roles, competence and improve team working
Support staff and reduce fatigue at night
Develop the role of Advanced Nursing Practice at night
Understand how hospitals can improve conditions for night workers and support Junior Doctors
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
