Sharper Teams, Safer Practice: Human Factors and Comms for Radiographers

In today’s fast-paced healthcare environments, strong teamwork, clear communication, and a deep understanding of human factors are essential to delivering safe, efficient patient care.

This interactive course is designed to equip clinical staff with practical skills and tools to strengthen team dynamics, enhance communication and embed a robust safety culture into everyday practice.

Key highlights

Through real-world scenarios, group exercises, and applied learning, participants will gain actionable strategies for improving collaboration, reducing errors, and increasing clinical efficiency.

Sign up for the course includes completion of a Service Animals profile that will be used to support your development through understanding your natural communication style, how to recognise that of others’ and develop techniques to adapt. The tool can help build stronger relationships and improve team dynamics through an unforgettable, interactive learning experience.

Whether you are new to practice or looking to refresh your skills, this course will help you be a sharper team member for safer, more resilient healthcare delivery.

Course objectives:

• Define human factors and their impact on radiographic practice.
• Explain the principles of a positive safety culture and how it influences patient outcomes.
• Identify key teamwork dynamics that contribute to safe and effective imaging services.
• Use the Service Animals tool to better understand communication and behaviours of self and others to support psychological safety and effective working
• Apply practical strategies to enhance safety culture and teamwork in their workplace

The day will be hosted by Dr Darren Hudson, an experienced MR radiographer and Senior Lecturer who has worked across a range of healthcare settings. He will be joined by Naomi Burden, patient safety consultant and coach.

This course is also taking place on Tuesday 20 January 2026

Sign up for the course includes completion of a Service Animals profile.

Accreditation: 3 CPD/CME Credits can be claimed in accordance with the CPD Scheme of The Royal College of Radiologists.

Please Note: All tickets are fixed to a 20% VAT rate.

Group discounts are available. For more information, please email educateenquiries@medica.co.uk

Course programme

• 9:00 – 9:15 – Introduction to the day
• 9:15 – 10:15 – Positive safety culture and climate
• 10:15 – 11:00 – Team working and service animals
• Break
• 11:15 – 12:00 – Human factors and non-technical skills
• 12:00 – 12:45 – Communication
• 12:45 – 13:00 – Wrap up and close

Course speakers:

Dr Darren Hudson, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter

Naomi Burden, Patient Safety and Safety Culture Consultant