Second Victim Support

Iona Elborough-Whitehouse
A new online resource explores and supports the concept of second victims among healthcare professionals involved in adverse clinical incidents. Here the authors and creators explain their research and work.

When a clinician provides care that leads to harm, the impact on patient safety can be far reaching.

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Iona Elborough-Whitehouse

Iona Elborough-Whitehouse is a clinical leadership fellow at the Improvement Academy. She has joined the team in the past year and has had the opportunity to bring the Second Victim Support website to launch as one of a cluster of projects she is leading in patient safety and support for staff. She is a community dietitian by background and has experience of supporting frontline clinicians through patient safety incidents.

Rebecca Lawton

Rebecca Lawton is professor, Psychology of Healthcare, University of Leeds and director of the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre. Rebecca is committed to delivering research that makes healthcare safer; her work involves the application of psychological theory to address priorities for patient safety.

Jayne Marran

Jayne Marran is a patient safety research nurse working as part of the Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research Group in the Bradford Institute for Health Research. Jayne has a long NHS nursing history and is passionate about improving the quality and safety of healthcare for patients as well as the wellbeing of those who work within healthcare.

Judith Johnson

Judith Johnson is a clinical psychologist based at both the School of Psychology, University of Leeds, and the Bradford Institute for Health Research. She currently researches issues related to the healthcare workforce, and has published on topics including burnout, patient safety, communication and staff training interventions.