August

AUGUST 2024 eNEWS

In this month’s edition…

Fifteen years of the ASPiH Conference!
ASPiH Student- Sim Stars Competition
National Simulation Technician Survey
Special Interest Group Launch
A Brand New Webinar
Three New Journal Clubs

Read on to find out more!

Please register your attendance here.

Further information, including a draft programme and accommodation are available

via the conference website.

We look forward to welcoming you to Scotland!

Visit conference website

Celebrate with us!

ASPiH2024 is a special year as we celebrate 15 years as an association at our annual conference – over 450 delegates have registered to attend already, if you’re thinking of attending, please click here to view the conference information and to register …

To help us celebrate we are building an incredible programme, with some fantastic papers we are so excited to share with you. We also have a very special guest attending to give an opening address, and many of our special interest groups are working on a series of engaging workshops for you to attend.

We also have some amazing pre-conference sessions – starting on the Friday with Adam Cheng and Vincent Grant leading an online session from the Debriefing Academy https://thedebriefingacademy.com /for us – take a look here to read the pre-conference abstracts https://aspihconference.co.uk/workshops/

Need more convincing to attend? – We are pleased to announce that the ASPiH 2024 conference is accredited by the Royal College of Anaesthetists for 12 CPD credits, which will be shown on the delegate certificate of attendance.

Celebratory Card

ASPiH is running a competition to celebrate its anniversary. You are invited to send ASPiH a celebratory card. Your card must have a simulation theme to it, and it must link to one of the overarching themes in the ASPiH Standards, being: Safety, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Sustainability and Excellence.

Your completed celebratory card must be uploaded to a dedicated Padlet by Friday 1st November 2024.

The winning celebratory card will be announced at the ASPIH 2024 Conference, which is being held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre from Sunday 3rd November - Tuesday 5th November 2024.

The winner will receive one free entry to next year’s ASPiH Conference

Good luck!

Submit your completed Celebratory Card

ASPiH Student- Sim Stars Competition

Please see below for further information on the ASPiH & iRIS inaugural Student-Sim Stars competition:

Register your team

Please note closing date for registrations is Monday, 16th September

Shortlisted teams will be invited to present at ASPiH2024

National Simulation Technician Survey

ASPiH Executive Committee Members, Charles Everard and Mary Holding, recently co-hosted a workshop at SimTech Live alongside Simulation Technicians from across the UK and Ireland. The event, held at the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity Headquarters, brought together over 60 attendees from 50 universities and NHS Trusts for two days of skill-building, networking, and collaboration.

During the workshop, Mary and Charles launched the National Simulation Technician Survey, addressing key aspects of the profession such as roles, experience levels, job satisfaction, and the future landscape. The insightful discussions shed light on current challenges and potential solutions, with survey outcomes set to drive strategies for enhancing the Simulation Technician role and ASPiH's support in the future.

A big thank you to Sim &Skills for organising an enriching event tailored for Simulation Technicians and collaborating with ASPiH to advance this critical role within Simulation Faculty. Join us in shaping the future of Simulation Technicians by completing the survey here:

Special Interest Groups

The ASPiH special interest groups exist to improve standards and develop shared expertise through communities of practice which can be applied to benefit the use of simulation in healthcare education, research and patient safety improvement.

View more information regarding the SIGs here.

Spotlight: Launch of a Special Interest Group on ASPiH Standards and Accreditation

We are thrilled to announce the formation of a new Special Interest Group (SIG) dedicated to the ASPiH Standards and Accreditation. This initiative aims to bring together professionals passionate about advancing simulation-based practice in healthcare through adherence to high standards and robust accreditation processes.

Why This SIG?

The ASPiH Standards, introduced in 2016 and recently updated in 2023,provide a comprehensive framework for designing and delivering effective simulation-based education and practice1. These standards are crucial for ensuring quality and consistency across simulation programs, benefiting educators, health and care professionals, and ultimately, patients. The accreditation process, aligned with these standards, offers a formal recognition of excellence in simulation-based practice.

Objectives of the SIG

Knowledge Sharing: Facilitate the exchange of best practices, experiences, and insights related to ASPiH standards and accreditation.
Professional Development: Provide opportunities for members to enhance their understanding and application of the standards through workshops, webinars, and collaborative projects.
Networking: Create a platform for professionals to connect, collaborate, and support each other in their accreditation journeys.
Advocacy: Promote the importance of high standards and accreditation in simulation-based practice to stakeholders within and beyond the healthcare sector.

Activities and Benefits

The SIG hopes to host a variety of activities designed to support its objectives:

Webinars: Featuring experts in simulation-based practice who will share their insights on implementing ASPiH standards and navigating the accreditation process.
Workshops and Training Sessions: Hands-on opportunities to learn about the standards in detail and how to apply them effectively.
Discussion Forums: Online platforms where members can ask questions, share experiences, and seek advice from peers and experts.
Resource Library: Access to a curated collection of articles, case studies, and tools related to ASPiH standards and accreditation.

Looking Ahead

We believe that this SIG will play a pivotal role in enhancing the quality of simulation-based education and practice. By fostering a community of like-minded professionals, we can collectively raise the bar for simulation in healthcare, ensuring that it meets the highest standards of excellence.

We want your help to consider or provide examples of where you have embedded the core principles of the standards so that we can support members.

How to Join

Membership in the SIG is open to all ASPiH members. To join, simply log into your ASPiH account and navigate to the SIG section. There, you can register your interest and start participating in upcoming events and discussions.

The Chair of the group is Professor Makani Purva and the Executive Committee lead is Colette Laws-Chapman. We will be hosting a workshop and a meeting at the ASPiH conference in Edinburgh in November this year where you can meet us face to face – do email us with your details and expression of interest. [email protected]

We look forward to your active participation and contributions to this exciting new initiative. Together, we can make a significant impact on the future of healthcare simulation.

A New Upcoming Webinar…

Race & Practice – Exploring the use of simulation to promote discussions around racism in healthcare

Over the last 2 years, the simulation team at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been exploring the use of simulation in promoting awareness of the impact of structural and institutional racism on mental healthcare delivery. This work has been done at both an undergraduate and a continuing professional development level with both an interprofessional learning cohort and an interprofessional faculty. Our colleagues at Oxford Brookes University have helped to shape and develop the courses further and we are now evaluating their impact together.

Given that huge health inequalities exist across all healthcare settings for those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, we are beginning to generalise our work to other areas with the recognition that racism is enacted in various ways across healthcare.

In this webinar, we will introduce attendees to our work, discuss the design and delivery considerations that arose, and discuss future implications for this type of work.

You are welcome to join us on Tuesday, 1st October at 3pm

Journal Club 2024

Please see below for the remaining Journal Club dates for 2024:

Thursday 12th September at 3pm, presented by Mirette Dubé:

“Harnessing system-focused simulation, debriefing and FMEA to inform healthcare blood transfusion safety and policy”

Tuesday 15th October at 1pm, presented by Jen Mutch:

Equity, diversity and inclusion in simulation-based education: constructing a developmental framework for medical educators

Wednesday 13th November at 10am, presented by Annelies Lovink:

How simulated patients contribute to student learning in an authentic way, an interview study

If you have not registered to receive the online link to the Journal Clubs, please click HERE

We want to share your thoughts…

We are inviting members to share with us positive stories stemming from your membership with ASPiH. Examples may include, how ASPiH membership has grown your network, knowledge or skills through various opportunities. If you are willing to share a couple of lines or even a short video (2 mins and mp4 format) highlighting what ASPiH means to you, this will help promote the association and will be used in its marketing material.

Send ASPiH your story

Contact:

[email protected] +44 (0) 1506 690193
ASPiH, Blackburn House, Redhouse Road, Bathgate, EH47 7AQ

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July

July 2024 eNews

The deadline for submitting applications is 5pm on Friday 30th August 2024.

Dragons’ Den

We are delighted to announce the launch of the ASPiH Dragons Den - as part of our 15th anniversary celebrations at the ASPiH conference.

Find out more

Today is your final day to register for the Early Bird rate

register your attendance.

Further information, including a draft programme and accommodation are available

via the conference website.

We look forward to welcoming you to Scotland!

Visit conference website

August Journal Club

We are looking forward to seeing many more of you at the next Simulation Journal Club where we will discuss:

The influence of patient gender in healthcare professional decision-making:
an interaction analysis of simulation debriefings (ijohs.com)

RSVP

Special Interest Groups

The ASPiH special interest groups exist to improve standards and develop shared expertise through communities of practice which can be applied to benefit the use of simulation in healthcare education, research and patient safety improvement.

View more information regarding the SIGs here.

Sign up using the QR code

We want to share your thoughts…

We are inviting members to share with us positive stories stemming from your membership with ASPiH. Examples may include, how ASPiH membership has grown your network, knowledge or skills through various opportunities. If you are willing to share a couple of lines or even a short video (2 mins and mp4 format) highlighting what ASPiH means to you, this will help promote the association and will be used in its marketing material.

Send ASPiH your story

Contact:

[email protected] +44 (0) 1506 690193
ASPiH, Blackburn House, Redhouse Road, Bathgate, EH47 7AQ

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June

June 2024 eNews

ASPiH 15th Anniversary Competition

Plans are well underway for the ASPiH conference this November which promises

to be an exciting 15th year celebration!

Early Bird rates are available until 31st July so there is still plenty of time to

register your attendance.

Great news from the ASPiH Scientific Committee — abstract reviews are complete!

Keep an eye on your inbox, as you will soon find out if your submission was accepted.

Further information, including a draft programme and accommodation are available

via the conference website.

We look forward to welcoming you to Scotland!

Visit conference website

Research Grant Awards

ASPiH Research Grant Awards applications are now closed.

Winners will be announced Mid-July 2024. Keep a look out for those.

Three awards are available:

2 x £1500 grant

1 x £2000 grant

For more information on the process visit our website here.

Journal Club

June

June 13th session was a Journal Club Special Event.

Prof Gabe Reedy (Advances in Simulation) presented "The State of Simulation Research in 2024" + Research and Publication Q&A.

This was a fantastic session and we were pleased to see many people in attendance.

July

We are looking forward to seeing many more of you at the next Simulation Journal Club where we will have author Vic Brazil presenting their paper.

‘Translational simulation revisited: an evolving conceptual model for the contribution of simulation to healthcare quality and safety, advances in simulation.’

RSVP on the website at www.aspih.org.uk/events

Change in management support

As of the 1st July 2024 we will transfer the management of our association to

Fitwise Management Ltd.

You can continue to contact ASPiH via: [email protected]

Fitwise have been in business over 30 years, and are experts in providing support to professional organisations. The Fitwise team will be providing ASPiH with a comprehensive range of services to support our membership and executive committee. These services will initially include; membership and website management, PA services, financial management, and marketing support. The management of annual conference will subsequently transfer to Fitwise for the 2025 event. This move signals an exciting time in the evolution and growth of ASPiH, and we look forward to working with Fitwise. I can confirm that we have the relevant data sharing agreements in place with Fitwise, and in light of these updates we have updated our Privacy Policy which you can view in full here

Special Interest Groups

The ASPiH special interest groups exist to improve standards and develop shared expertise through communities of practice which can be applied to benefit the use of simulation in healthcare education, research and patient safety improvement.

View more information regarding the SIGs here.

Current hot topic: Simulating EPR in Healthcare

Author: Paul Wilder (Interim lead for Technology Enhanced Learning at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust)

In this article Paul presents his thoughts on what the four main options are regarding the emergence of computerised EPR systems.

Read article here

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We want to share your thoughts…

We are inviting members to share with us positive stories stemming from your membership with ASPiH. Examples may include, how ASPiH membership has grown your network, knowledge or skills through various opportunities. If you are willing to share a couple of lines or even a short video (2 mins and mp4 format) highlighting what ASPiH means to you, this will help promote the association and will be used in its marketing material.

Send ASPiH your story

May

May 2024 eNews

Dear Members,

ASPiH Conference 2024
3rd – 5th November – Edinburgh International Conference Centre

Transformative Simulation

Plans are well underway for the ASPiH conference this November which promises to be an exciting 15th year celebration!

Early Bird rates are available until 31st July so there is still plenty of time to register your attendance.

Some key statistics so far…..

Record breaking abstracts submissions were received – over 350!
The exhibition hall is now pretty much SOLD OUT
There are 5 pre-conference courses on offer. One online on 1st November with the others taking place on 3rd November at the conference venue
A Gala Dinner not to be missed is taking place on Monday 4th at the Sheraton Grand Hotel
Five fantastic keynote talks taking place within the programme, which also includes workshop, oral and poster presentations

Further information, including a draft programme and accommodation information can be found here - https://aspihconference.co.uk/

We look forward to welcoming you to Scotland!

Special Interest Groups

The ASPiH special interest groups exist to improve standards and develop shared expertise through communities of practice which can be applied to benefit the use of simulation in healthcare education,research and patient safety improvement. There are currently SIGs in the following areas:

Research

Transformative Simulation

Primary Care

Sustainability

Debriefing

Simulation Technicians

Paediatrics

Human Factors

Standards

ASPiH now have MS Teams channels available to SIG Chairs and members to keep communication open and easily share and edit documents within the SIG so we can share best practice and support across organisations and regions. If you're an ASPiH member and wish to be added to the Teams channel or joint any of the SIGs please email [email protected].

The Paediatric SIG and the Human Factors SIG have been ably chaired for many years by Tim Mason, Rachel Bebb and Al Ross respectively,but they would now like to hand the reins on to someone else. On behalf of the ASPiH community thank you to the three of them for their work. If you're interested in helping to develop either the Paediatrics or Human Factors SIGs then please get in touch with [email protected]

View more information regarding the SIGs here.

NEW! Research Grant Awards

We are very excited to announce ASPiH’s new Research Grant Awards where we are inviting members to apply for research and service improvement awards.

These awards will enable the undertaking of a simulation research or improvement based activity that will further an area of knowledge that is of priority in healthcare simulation. Funding can be used in various ways such as to create or strengthen research collaborations, attend research specific training, buy specific research related software, transcriptions costs, hire support and expertise, or spend time in a research/improvement intensive environment.

Three awards are available:

2 x £1500 grant

1 x £2000 grant

Applications are open.

For more information on the process and how to apply visit out website here.

Journal Club

May

We were delighted to see so many of you at this months Simulation Journal Club which took place on 15th May 2024 10-11am.

Ranjev Kainth presented their paper

Transforming Professional Identity in Simulation Debriefing

A Systematic Metaethnographic Synthesis of the Simulation Literature

It was a fantastic session.

June

Journal Club Special Event

We are looking forward to seeing many more of you at the next Simulation Journal Club which is a Simulation Journal Club Special Event:

Prof Gabe Reedy (Advances in Simulation) presents "The State of Simulation Research in 2024" + Research and Publication Q&A.

13th June 1-2pm

RSVP on the website at www.aspih.org.uk/events

ASPiH are delighted to announce a new affiliation with The Debriefing Academy.

ASPiH members can get up to 15% discount on The Debriefing Academy content - including courses.

The Debriefing Academy will also be running an online pre-conference workshop on Friday 1st November. Just before ASPiH 2024 in Edinburgh.

Remembering the years!

As ASPiH will be celebrating their 15-year anniversary at conference this November we invite all ASPiH members to send over any photos from past conferences.

These photos will be posted on our memory wall at conference to showcase ASPiH over the years!

Please send these in via email to [email protected] or if you have a large number of photos please feel free to send via WeTransfer, a free software to send large files https://wetransfer.com/

We want to share your thoughts…

We are inviting members to share with us positive stories stemming from your membership with ASPiH. Examples may include, how ASPiH membership has grown your network, knowledge or skills through various opportunities. If you are willing to share a couple of lines or even a short video (2 mins and mp4 format) highlighting what ASPiH means to you, this will help promote the association and will be used in its marketing material. Please send forward to [email protected]

April

April 2024 eNews

Dear Members,

It’s not too late!

We are excited to remind you that the deadline for abstract submissions for ASPiH 2024 is 23:59 TODAY!.

Don't miss the opportunity to showcase your work and contribute to the vibrant discussions at ASPiH 2024.Visit ASPiH 2024 for more details and submission guidelines. We look forward to your submissions and to seeing you at the conference!

Please note: Our Special Offer Super Early Bird Members Only rate Closes with the Abstract Submission Deadline.

https://aspihconference.co.uk/register/

Remembering the years!

As ASPiH will be celebrating their 15-year anniversary at conference this November we invite all ASPiH members to send over any photos from past conferences.

These photos will be posted on our memory wall at conference to showcase ASPiH over the years!

Please send these in via email to [email protected] or if you have a large number of photos please feel free to send via WeTransfer, a free software to send large files https://wetransfer.com/

NEW! Research Grant Awards

We are very excited to announce ASPiH’s new Research Grant Awards where we are inviting members to apply for research and service improvement awards.

These awards will enable the undertaking of a simulation research or improvement based activity that will further an area of knowledge that is of priority in healthcare simulation. Funding can be used in various ways such as to create or strengthen research collaborations, attend research specific training, buy specific research related software, transcriptions costs, hire support and expertise, or spend time in a research/improvement intensive environment.

Three awards are available:

2 x £1500 grant

1 x £2000 grant

Applications open on 1st May.

For more information on the process and how to apply visit out website here.

We want to share your thoughts…

We are inviting members to share with us positive stories stemming from your membership with ASPiH. Examples may include, how ASPiH membership has grown your network, knowledge or skills through various opportunities. If you are willing to share a couple of lines or even a short video (2 mins and mp4 format) highlighting what ASPiH means to you, this will help promote the association and will be used in its marketing material. Please send forward to [email protected]

Journal Club

April

We were pleased to welcome many attendees to April’s Simulation Journal Club which took place on 16th April 2024 1-2pm.

We were delighted to welcome our very own president elect Sharon Weldon who joined us to present Paper.

Health Care Simulation in Person and at a Distance: A Systematic review.

May

We are looking forward to seeing many more of you at the next Simulation Journal Club which will take place on 15th May 2024 10-11am.

Ranjev Kainth will be presenting their paper

Transforming Professional Identity in Simulation Debriefing

A Systematic Metaethnographic Synthesis of the Simulation Literature

RSVP on the website at www.aspih.org.uk/events

AGM

On the 15th April we held our annual AGM. Thank you to those that attended on the day it was lovely to see you there.

For those that couldn’t attend and would like to view the recording this will soon be available on our new ASPiH portal.

Special Interest Groups

The ASPiH special interest groups exist to improve standards and develop shared expertise through communities of practice which can be applied to benefit the use of simulation in healthcare education, research and patient safety improvement.

View more information regarding the SIGs here.

If you’re interested in joining any of the SIGs, please email [email protected]

We would like to inform you that the new issue of SIMZINE has just been launched on simzine.news

Here you will find the list of articles https://simzine.news/tag/simzine-n13-2/and here is the downloadable PDF https://simzine.news/uncategorized/simzine-13/

March

March 2024 eNews

Dear Members,

We hope you’re all having a lovely Bank Holiday weekend!

Remembering the years!

As ASPiH will be celebrating their 15-year anniversary at conference this November we invite all ASPiH members to send over any photos from past conferences.

These photos will be posted on our memory wall at conference to showcase ASPiH over the years!

Please send these in via email to [email protected] or if you have a large number of photos please feel free to send via WeTransfer, a free software to send large files https://wetransfer.com/

New to Members Area - ASPiH Portal

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, access to top-tier simulation content is not just an advantage—it's a necessity. The Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) and Beaker Health are proud to present an unparalleled opportunity for it's members to join the ASPiH Portal.

The ASPiH Portal is a repository of digital resources from previous ASPiH conferences, Journal club meetings and webinars. It is the intention of ASPiH to grow this Portal to become the largest repository of simulation related content in the UK and Ireland.

To achieve this ambitious goal, ASPiH has already hosted one successful webinar and will be hosting a second webinar to showcase our vision for the ASPiH Portal and how our members and partner organisations can get involved.

The date for the webinar is as follows:

Wednesday 17th April,1800 - 1900hrs.

You can book your space on a webinar by emailing [email protected]

Journal Club

March

We were pleased to welcome many attendees to March’s Simulation Journal Club which took place on 14th March 2024 10-11am.

We were delighted to welcome guest speaker Carl Christiansen who joined us to present their Paper.

‘Comparing reflection levels between facilitator-led and student-led debriefing in simulation training for paramedic students | Advances in Simulation’

April

We are looking forward to seeing many more of you at the next Simulation Journal Club which will take place on 16th April 2024 1-2pm.

Paper.

Health Care Simulation in Person and at a Distance: A Systematic review

RSVP on the website at www.aspih.org.uk/events

ASPiH Annual General Meeting

The next AGM will be held on 15th April 2024 09:00-10:30am GMT via MS Teams.

Please keep this link safe and use it to join at 9:00. We look forward to seeing you there.

ASPiH Affiliations

The GNSH Spring Virtual Event is five weeks away.

Join GNSH for a thought-provoking virtual event as we delve into the transformative power of AI in re imagining simulations across various fields.Engage with leading experts, participate in dynamic discussions, and explore the future of AI in shaping healthcare, education, and beyond. The GNSH 2024 Virtual Spring Event will be held on Thursday,April 25th from 10:00AM-12:00PM EST and features both a keynote address and interactive panel discussion. Please see additional information about our esteemed speaker and panelists below:

Speaker: Dr. Melissa McCradden, Women's and Children's Health Network Artificial Intelligence Director, The Hospital Research Foundation Clinical Research Fellow in Ethics of AI

Panelist: Dr. Jules White, Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Generative AI in Education and Enterprise Solutions, Professor of Computer Science

Panelist: Dr. Cornelius Alfred James, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Panelist: Dr. Justin Jeffers, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

You can view the event overview including the agenda and bios for the panelists and keynote speaker here. To register, please complete this brief form by Wednesday, April 3rd. As a reminder, there is no cost to participate. Should you have any questions about this event, please contact [email protected].

The Renaissance of health professions education and simulation through AI.

Debriefing Academy

We have an exciting collaboration with the debriefing academy more details to follow in next months newsletter.

Special Interest Groups

The ASPiH special interest groups exist to improve standards and develop shared expertise through communities of practice which can be applied to benefit the use of simulation in healthcare education, research and patient safety improvement.

If you’re interested in joining any of the SIGs, please email [email protected]

February

February 2024 eNews

Affiliation Organisations

Our growing Institutional and Individual membership is helping us to establish and strengthen links and networks involved in the development of the current and future healthcare workforce, as well as influencing quality and patient safety improvement within the UK and beyond.

As we recognise that we can achieve far more when we work together, we have affiliation agreements with UK, European and world wide associations. These agreements vary. If you want to take advantage of any discounts offered by our affiliates agreements, please contact [email protected]

Our affiliate partners:

SESAM - Society for Simulation in Europe

SIMGhosts

SSH - Society for Simulation in Healthcare

BACCN - British Association of Critical Care Nurses

Healthy Simulation

Simzine

Journal Club

February

We were pleased to welcome more than 20 attendees to February’s Simulation Journal Club which took place on 14th February 2024 1pm-2pm.

We were delighted to welcome guest speaker Adarsh Shar who joined us to present their Paper.

'Integrating simulation into surgical training: a qualitative case study of a national programme'

March

We are looking forward to seeing many more of you at the next Simulation Journal Club which will take place on 14th March 2024 10am-11am.

Carl Christiansen will be presenting their Paper.

Comparing reflection levels between facilitator-led and student-led debriefing in simulation training for paramedic students | Advances in Simulation | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)

RSVP on the website at www.aspih.org.uk/events

ASPiH Annual General Meeting

The next AGM will be held on 15th April 2024 09:00-10:30am GMT.

Further information to follow.

ASPiH Standards 2023

We launched the new ASPiH Standards 2023 last November.

If you want to watch the plenary recording from conference, which gives some background to how the standards were developed and intended to be used we have put this on the website here.

Special Interest Groups

The ASPiH special interest groups exist to improve standards and develop shared expertise through communities of practice which can be applied to benefit the use of simulation in healthcare education, research and patient safety improvement.

If you’re interested in joining any of the SIGs, please email [email protected]

January

January 2024 eNews

Dear Members,

It was wonderful to see so many of you last November at our 14th annual conference and I hope those of you that were able to attend will agree, the conference was a magnificent success. With over 760 attendees,and 44 commercial partners attending we indulged in 2.5 days of networking, collaboration, making future plans, engagement with and dissemination of knowledge.

We are already making headway with ASPiH 2024, and we hope to make this an even stronger community space for collaborating and sharing knowledge and innovations as we celebrate. ASPiH’s 15th year as an association. The latest updates will be shared on our website and social media channels. https://aspihconference.co.uk/

Immediately after conference I attended the GNSH2023 Annual summit in Dubai on behalf of ASPiH. The purpose of the summit was to bring healthcare leaders, simulation experts and researchers, corporate and industry leaders to explore where simulation may offer solutions for the global health human resource crisis.

Professor Mark Britnell: former CE of University Hospitals Birmingham, now a Trustee at The Kings Fund among other roles, presented some staggering statistics on the workforce crisis and shared his perspective on changes to tackle this including; Patients as partners with people powered health and cloud based consultations; Agile learning organisations with team based forecasting and horizon scanning; and a Managed and motivated workforce by loving your staff – conduct meaningful PDR’s, bring joy to work , crucial to focus on leadership, culture and ability.

ASPiH EC member Guillaume Alinier presented his perspectives on the challenges and gaps in the supply and demand of health workers, and advocated for standardisation, accreditation, certification, and ethical codes for simulation educators and practitioners.

I was struck by two things – how so much of our work could impact or be part of these suggested solutions, how important it is to engage with our global simulation community colleagues to discuss, share, challenge and advance our thinking in simulation solutions for our health and care workforce and the patients we serve.

Here is a link to the GNSH website https://www.gnsh.org/ - there is a useful toolkit on making a case for simulation which you may find useful!

Colette Laws-Chapman

President

Executive Committee

It is with great sadness we announce that executive committee member Emily Browne will be leaving the ASPiH committee.

Emily has been an important part of ASPiH’s success and we wish her all the best in the future.

Conference 2023 Report

Our conference 2023 report is now available to view on our website here.

All the information regarding ASPiH 2023 held in Brighton last November will be in this document.

Journal Club

January

We were pleased to welcome more than 35 attendees to January’s Journal Club session:

Ryan Brydges presented his paper 'Getting everyone to the table: exploring everyday and every night work to consider ‘latent social threats’ through interprofessional tabletop simulation'. The paper can be accessed here.

We welcomed both members and non-members.

This was the first session of the year and we kicked off with a bang.

February

We are looking forward to seeing many more of you at the next Simulation Journal Club which will take place in the new year on 14th February 2024 1pm-2pm.

We are delighted to be welcoming guest speaker Adarsh Shar who will be joining us to present their Paper.

'Integrating simulation into surgical training: a qualitative case study of a national programme'

RSVP on the website at www.aspih.org.uk/events

Members Area

ASPiH are in the process of creating a library of digital resources which will be specifically for our members. This library will hold past conference recordings, which may include plenary presentations, workshops, oral presentations and poster presentations, along with ASPiH webinars, Simulation Journal Clubs and much more. If you feel you may have been recorded and are concerned or do not wish for your recording to be shared in the members area please get in touch with [email protected]

AGM

The next AGM will be held on 15th April 2024 09:00-10:30am GMT.

Further information to follow.

Special Interest Groups

The ASPiH special interest groups exist to improve standards and develop shared expertise through communities of practice which can be applied to benefit the use of simulation in healthcare education, research and patient safety improvement.

If you’re interested in joining any of the SIGs, please email [email protected]

ASPiH exec take to a stand at the conference!

Last year members of the ASPiH executive committee took to their very own stand in the exhibition hall to meet all the delegates. Our ambition was to learn more about our delegates, and how ASPiH could support them as members or non-members moving forward. Free sweets and pens were the crowd puller and at times we had queues of people waiting to speak to the exec.

We are excited to report ASPiH captured lots of interesting data via a short survey which will inform some projects moving forward to enhance our provision for its members. Should you still wish to complete this survey please feel free to access it by scanning this QR code.

Newsletters

2024

In this month’s edition…

Fifteen years of the ASPiH Conference!

ASPiH Student- Sim Stars Competition

National Simulation Technician Survey

Special Interest Group Launch

A Brand New Webinar

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