Oxford Open Grand Rounds
Wednesday, 11 February 2026, 2.30pm to 3.30pm
Online via Zoom
'Designing healthcare for clinician wellbeing and patient safety'
Clinician wellbeing and patient safety are often discussed separately. In practice, they are deeply interconnected and shaped not only by individual resilience, but by the design of the systems and environments in which clinicians work.
This Oxford Open Grand Round will explore how workplace design influences engagement, wellbeing, and patient safety, drawing on insights from surgery, anaesthesia, human factors, and improvement science.
The event will feature a 45-minute virtual panel discussion, followed by live audience Q&A, focused on:
▪️ What clinicians are really experiencing in today’s healthcare environments
▪️ The explicit and implicit impacts of design on wellbeing and safety
▪️ Practical, system-level opportunities for change.
Speakers
Helen Higham - Associate Professor in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford, a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Dean for Simulation and Patient Safety at NHSE-Thames Valley.
Laura Vincent - Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine and leads simulation-based education in the Oxford Critical Care Unit.
Lilli Cooper - Surgeon and Coach for Doctors and High-Stakes Professionals
Oxford Open Grand Rounds are part of the MSc in Surgical Science and Practice and the PGCert in Patient Safety & Quality Improvement, and are open to clinicians globally who are interested in making a meaningful difference in and around their workplace.