PIPSQC’s Minicourse (M23) “Making Health Care Safer for Children” at the IHI 23rd Annual National Forum was a Great Success! Thank you to all our Participants. Presentations from the Minicourse will soon be posted online in the Resource Center.   We are delighted to announce Dr. Peter Lachman as the new Chair of PIPSQC! Peter was a founding member of PIPSQC and has served as PIPSQC Faculty since its nascency in 2006. Peter is a Consultant Paediatrician at Great Ormond Street Hospital and The Royal Free Hospital, and is a Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellow. Congratulations Peter! We would like to express our sincere and heartfelt appreciation to Dr. Anne Matlow, Medical Director of Patient Safety and Infection Prevention and Control at SickKids Hospital in Toronto, for her leadership and dedication over the past five years. We look forward to what lies ahead for PIPSQC in 2012 and to gearing up for the IHI...

Join us at the IHI Forum on December 5th for our Minicourse number M23 entitled "Making Health Care Safer for Children."

We had 70 people at our symposium: ' Aiming for zero harm in paediatrics'.  Peter started with a welcome and promotion of PIPSQC. Approximately half the audience were MDs and the rest nurses and other healthcare professionals. Half the crowd were from stand alone paediatric hospitals, and half from general hospitals. Peter's talk focused on uniqueness of patient safety vulnerabilities in children and why we have an obligation to protect children in the healthcare system. The topic of the need for 24/7 coverage by consultant paediatricians resonated with many who are trying to make this case. Does it make sense that the best trained physicians go home when the sickest patients come in?

Today is the second day of the International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare. PIPSQC definitely has a presence here: Peter from London, David from Dublin, Steve from Cincinnati, Anne from Toronto.