Chair: Dr Jiv Gosai

Read the ASPiH Research SIG Terms of Reference

Student ASPiH (sASPiH) is the special interest group (SIG) of ASPiH devoted to the recruitment, retention and development of undergraduate and newly qualified healthcare professionals within ASPiH.

The main aim of the SASPiH committee is the creation of educational products (i.e. a platform for innovation) to offer student/junior-specific incentives for joining ASPiH and acting as a hub for student/junior ventures.  As such, if you have an idea or a plan for an educational event, opportunity or resource related to simulation, TEL and/or patient safety, we are more than happy to support and possibly provide resources for this, and assist you in disseminating your work academically after.

We were launched in 2014/2015 and have established the groundwork for a stable and productive SIG over the past two years; 2017/2018 we intend to build up resources and opportunities for sASPiH members to give them value for their membership, and improve recruitment and retention of student members of ASPiH.

Student members of ASPiH automatically become sASPiH members.  Please contact us if you wish to opt out; you do not have to state a reason when doing so.
Newly qualified professionals (within two years of graduation) must opt in; please email mailto:[email protected]and we will add you as a member of sASPiH.

If you are interested in our activities, opportunities or even joining our committee, please email our current chair of operations [email protected] and CC [email protected]

Our terms of reference will be available soon

Chair: Lydia Lofton [email protected]

Lydia is a Paediatric Intensive Care Nurse and Lead Nurse for the SPRinT (simulated interprofessional team training) Programme. She has experience and interest in multi-professional clinical education, which is underpinned by a desire to utilize simulation to improve patient safety. She is particularly interested in the use of simulation to educate professionals working in the specialist area of paediatrics, and how we involve and engage the perspective of the patients and families within these areas. ASPiH members from all professional backgrounds with in an interest in paediatric simulation are invited to join and contribute to this special interest group to encourage development and of high quality simulation initiatives across a range of environments where children are cared for.

Please contact Lydia if you would like to be involved.

Chair: Makani Purva  [email protected]Purva is President of ASPiH, an anaesthetist and a Director of Medical Education. She is the Chair of the Standards Committee of ASPiH and is the main author of the ASPiH standards for simulation based education. She is keen to receive feedback from ASPiH conference attendees about the standards document and how it can support the development of high quality SBE for all healthcare professions.

The opportunity to apply for ASPiH Accreditation of organisations/centres, programmes and individual faculty has now gone live. For more information, please visit the Accreditation page

Do join the standards SIG and be part of this exciting new development of ASPiH

Download the ASPiH Standards and Quality Assurance SIG ToR

The SIG Chairs would like to hear from anyone who is interested in joining the ASPiH Human Factors & Ergonomics SIG. They are keen to hear peoples ideas, experiences, or connections to share from their own practice or wider afield that might be of interest to this SIG community.

Members from all professions and industry are welcome, please contact Bryn or Al by email.

Co - chair: Bryn Baxendale [email protected]

Bryn is a Consultant Anaesthetist & Director of Trent Simulation & Clinical Skills Centre in Nottingham. He is the Immediate Past President of ASPiH, and is a member of the HEE TEL Steering group and the Learning to be Safer Expert Group. His primary interest is the application and integration of Human Factors science within healthcare educational curricula and also in clinical practice.

Co - chair: Al Ross mailto:[email protected]

Al is a Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors Expert (CErgHF) and Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. He is a Lecturer in Behavioural Science at University of Glasgow Dental School and also the Human Factors Lead at the Centre for Applied Resilience in Healthcare at King’s College London. He sits on the Scottish Patient Safety Programme Steering Group for Dentistry in Primary Care and is on the Editorial Board of BMJ Simulation & Technology Enhanced Learning.

He is interested in engaging with people to discuss and develop many aspects of HFE applied to simulation and healthcare, especially with regards to using simulation to explore resilient systems, and HFE-based interventions that show improvements for patient care.

5th August 2016 - The opportunity to comment on the MHRA Human Factors Guidance for Medical Devices Report has now closed. View the Report for Comment MHRA-Human Factors

Co-Chair: Chris Gay [email protected]

Chris is the Medical Education Technical Team Lead for Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. He has over 10 years’ experience in working to enhance learning with technology, ranging from working with individuals to maximise their use of technology right through to project managing large scale technological installations. He is keen to be involved with regional and national roles to further the understanding of the difference that the learning technologists can make to healthcare education.

Co-chair: Jane Nicklin [email protected]

Jane has recently taken up the role of ASPiH's Operations Manager. She continues to work freelance, trading as SimSupport 'supporting skills and simulation' across the UK. She is an ODP by background and is a consistent advocate for the role of the skills and simulation technicians including the launch of the Regional TECH Champions and coordinating a funded HEYH pilot of skills and simulation Technician Apprentices in 2014.

The ASPiH TechSIG has been active since Oxford 2012, over 60 technicians have engaged at various conferences and the community continues to grow!

If you are interested in getting involved please contact Chris or Jane - we would love to hear from you!

Relevant documents:

ASPiH TechSIG Terms of reference

Other documents of interest uploaded by the Co-Chairs of the TECH SIG

The Silent Innovators

Results of a Survey-Based Study J.Nicklin 2016

Chair: Michael Moneypenny [email protected]

Michael obtained an honours degree in Biochemistry before he learned the error of his ways and went on to read Medicine at the University of Dundee, graduating with honours in 2002. He spent a year and a half as a clinical research fellow at the University of Liverpool and honorary simulation research fellow at the Cheshire and Merseyside Simulation Centre. He returned to Scotland to accept a consultant post in Anaesthesia in 2011.

Michael was appointed director of the Scottish Centre for Simulation and Clinical Human Factors in June 2012. In 2015, the University of Liverpool awarded him an MD  in Medical Education entitled “Evaluating professionalism, teamwork and leadership in medical undergraduates”. His research interests include the power gradients in healthcare, systems approaches to patient safety and the most effective methods for delivering simulation-based medical education.

Michael is also vice-chair of the Scottish Clinical Skills Network.

Recents documents: Directors, managers and administrators SIG Terms of Reference