Breaking Silos: Advancing Interprofessional Teamwork for Quality, Safety, and Resilience
- Date / Time
12:45pm-2:00pm
- Location
- Abstract
Effective interprofessional teamwork, enabled through interprofessional education, is essential for delivering high-quality, safe patient care, fostering family involvement, and supporting staff well-being; this is especially true in intensive care units (ICUs). This lecture, using ICUs as an example, will critically examine the international evidence of interprofessional education and teamwork in healthcare, drawing on evidence from the FEARLESS ICU Project—a four-year NIHR-funded study employing a mixed-method multiple case study approach to strengthen teamwork in ICUs across England. Key themes will include the factors that enable or hinder interprofessional teamwork, the effectiveness of existing interventions to enhance collaboration, and the challenges of implementing sustainable changes in practice. The findings will offer insights into the complexities of interprofessional working and highlight strategies for improving teamwork to benefit patients, families, and healthcare staff.
All staff and students are welcome. Both lecture and workshop are accredited by CME and CNE!
- Speaker(s)
Dr Andreas Xyrichis
Reader in Interprofessional Science at King’s College London, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interprofessional Care
Andreas Xyrichis, PhD, is a Reader in Interprofessional Science at King’s College London and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interprofessional Care. His research centres on strengthening interprofessional, team-based approaches in healthcare, encompassing workforce preparation and training, and the development and evaluation of interprofessional interventions. Ranked by SciVal among the top 2% of scholars worldwide in ‘Interprofessional Relations’, he has secured over HK$16 million in research funding for projects on interprofessional education and teamwork in healthcare across diverse global settings. He is the Chief Investigator of the FEARLESS ICU study, a pioneering project examining interprofessional teamwork in intensive care units in England. He also serves as Director of the esteemed UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE), was elected to the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), and is a founding director of the European Academy for Interprofessional Science.
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