Quality and Patient Safety Symposium Workshop
$ 25 – $ 75
Quality and Patient Safety Symposium Workshop 2026 is a 2-day in-person and virtual conference in Nairobi for surgeons, anesthetists, nurses, theatre teams, quality teams, and hospital leaders focused on surgical quality improvement, patient safety, operating room safety, infection prevention, clinical audit, root cause analysis, and post-operative care.
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Course Overview
The Quality and Patient Safety Symposium Workshop is a 2-day hybrid training program designed to strengthen safer surgical systems by moving teams from compliance-based practice to a culture of safety. It brings together surgical, anesthesia, nursing, theatre, quality, and hospital leadership teams to learn practical approaches to improving outcomes across the pre-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative phases.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Explain the modern concepts of surgical quality, patient safety, and high-reliability surgical care.
- Identify common causes of adverse events and never events in surgical practice.
- Apply the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist effectively as a team-based safety tool.
- Improve communication, briefing, debriefing, and teamwork in the operating room.
- Use key quality indicators, audits, dashboards, and incident reporting systems to monitor performance.
- Conduct effective morbidity and mortality reviews and root cause analysis after complications.
- Strengthen pre-operative safety through patient selection, optimization, infection prevention, and checklist use.
- Promote intra-operative safety through safe anesthesia practices, crisis management, and proper theatre conduct.
- Enhance post-operative safety through early recovery measures, complication detection, and follow-up systems.
- Develop practical quality improvement actions that reduce complications, readmissions, and failure to rescue.
Target Audience
This workshop is ideal for:
- Surgeons
- Anaesthetists
- Nurses
- Theatre Teams
- Quality Teams
- Hospital Leaders
- Residents
- Clinical Officers
- Medical Students
COURSE DATE:
24th to 25th September 2026
COURSE TIMINGS:
8AM to 4PM
COURSE FEE DETAILS:
- PHYSICAL – KES 7,500 or 75 USD – for on-site delegates
- ONLINE – KES 2,500 or 25 USD
POSTER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Who can submit?
- Surgeons
- Residents
- Medical Officers
- Anaesthetists
- Nurses
- Theatre Teams
- Clinical Officers
- Medical Students
- Quality Improvement Teams
- Healthcare Researchers
Suggested Topics:
- Surgical Quality Improvement
- Patient Safety Initiatives
- Clinical Audits
- Infection Prevention & Control
- Surgical Safety Checklists
- Human Factors & Team Communication
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS)
- Digital Health & Quality Improvement
- Morbidity & Mortality Learning
- Healthcare Innovation
- Clinical Governance
- Quality Improvement Research
Poster Specifications:
- Size: A0 Portrait
- Original research, audits, quality improvement projects, or case-based innovations are welcome*** Carry your printed A0 poster for display during the symposium
Judging Criteria:
- Relevance – 20%
- Scientific Merit – 25%
- Innovation – 20%
- Practical Impact – 20%
- Presentation – 15%
Deadline: 12th September, 2026
Submit Your Poster to [email protected]
NEED MORE INFO?
Feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] or (+254) 0742 747 098
