CORESS Selected Achievements
- Publication of over 250 Surgical Safety Reports in: Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Surgeons’ News (Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh); Journal of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland (JASGI); and Specialty Journals and Newsletters
- Other selected publications:
- Surgical Quality Assurance Meetings – Developing the Morbidity & Mortality Conference.
- Wilkins DC, Smith FCT (Eds) Issues in Professional Practice – Association of Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland, April 2015
- FCT Smith, AM Lewis, DC Wilkins. Confidential Reporting Systems in Surgical Practice. In Recent Advances in Surgery 37 (Ed Irving Taylor) Jaypee Publishing. 2015: Chapter 2; 15-24 o Mushtaq F, O’Driscoll C, Smith FCT, Wilkins D, Kapur N, Lawton R. Contributory Factors in Surgical Incidents as Delineated by a Confidential Reporting System. Ann Roy Coll Surg Engl 2018;100(5):1-5
- Delivery of Human Factors Safety Workshops and Webinars (Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, July 2020)
- Contribution to the NHS “Never Events Task Force” and publication of the report:Standardise, Educate, Harmonise: Commissioning the Conditions for Safer Surgery (February 2014)
Contribution to NHS England Surgical Services Patient Safety Expert Group (2013-16)
- Contribution to Steering Group for National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) (2011-16)
- Chaired the Key Surgical Factors group, contributing to the NHS England National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs), September 2015
- CORESS’ written evidence and testimony before the Parliamentary Public Administration Select Committee: NHS Complaints and Clinical Failure in Hospitals Inquiry, is widely quoted in its report on Patient Safety, January 2015. The inquiry led directly to the instigation of HSIB – the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch in 2018