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Seminar: Benchmarking hospital safety 26 Jan 2009, 17:30-18:45, 1.67, Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus Event series: King's PSSQ Open Seminars School / area: Social Science & Public Policy Location: Waterloo Campus Location map: Waterloo: detail Speaker: Professor Marc Berg Speaker institution: Erasmus University Rotterdam 'Benchmarking safety in real-time hospital work settings: challenges and promises' - King's College London PSSQ seminar, followed by drinks. Marc Berg, MD, PhD, is Professor of Social Medicine in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His main interests are the generation and organisation of 'high quality' and 'low cost' health care practices. Performance management, and the public presentation of performance measures, is important in this regard. He has been active in the introduction of national obligatory public performance information on the quality and safety of hospital care. He has published widely on medical sociology, sociology of technology, standardisation, information technology and quality management. Contact name: Xanthe Henson Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: 020 3299 4660 Professor Jane Sandall Professor of Midwifery & Women's Health Programme Director (Innovations) NIHR King's Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery Waterloo Bridge Wing, 150 Stamford Street, King's College, London, LONDON, SE1 9NH Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 3605 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 3764 e-mail:[log in to unmask] http://www.kingspssq.org.uk/ See profile at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/medicine/research/hscr/sandall.html http://myprofile.cos.com/sandall