About this event

  • Date and time Fri 29 Nov 2024 from 8:30am to 5:30pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Clinical Forensic and Legal Medicine, British Academy of Forensic Sciences

Join us for a compelling and unique event exploring critical topics at the intersection of medical, legal, and safety decision-making. We'll delve into the complexities of organ donation consent, the challenges accident cases pose to coroners, the role of GPS in road accidents, the factors behind the Croydon tram derailment, and the impact of cognitive bias on clinical decision-making in anaesthesia. This is a joint event with the British Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Participants will learn: 

  • To understand decision-making in organ donation cases, factors influencing family consent, and the role of the SNOD
  • Coroner decision-making in accident cases, gathering of evidence, and whether full consent can be achieved
  • GPS as a causative element of accident cases, its cognitive effect, and whether more research is needed
  • Causes of a tram derailment and the human factor elements in driving
  • Cognitive bias in a clinical incident and how to improve challenging decision-making

 

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Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Mr David Heming, President, Clinical Forensic and Legal Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine and Professor Peter Watson. President, British Academy of Forensic Sciences

Human factors, human attention, and awareness

Polly Dalton, Royal Holloway University 

Drug driving impact on collisions

Kim Wolff MBE, Director, King's Forensics, Kings College London 

Case study on distraction and confusion: Impact of mobile phones and apps

Darren Johnson, Digital Forensic Investigator, City of London Police

Tea and coffee break
Organ donation – factors that influence consent to donation in accident cases

Becky Clare, Specialist Nurse in Organ Donation

Coroner decision making – are there any challenges in accident cases?

Caroline Jones, Area Coroner, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough 

Questions and answers
Lunch Break
Satellite navigation – cognitive effect on drivers and contributory effects in accidents

Dr Mike Pake, Anglia Ruskin University

The Croydon tram derailment – causes and driver actions

Miles Bennett, Barrister, 5 Paper Buildings 

Tea and coffee break
Cognitive bias in an anaesthesia adverse event

Sean Horstead, Area Coroner Essex 

Questions and answers
Close of meeting

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration for the in-person option will close at 1:00am on 28 November 2024 and for the virtual option on 29 November 2024. Late registrations will not be accepted. 

The agenda is subject to change at any time 

If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenters and RSM's discretion. 

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations. 

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels. 

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