title: Don't blame the iceberg.
abstract: At the above-mentioned study day, Lesley Fudge gave a colleague's paper on risk management. The colleague was Jill Ashley-Jones, then a Health Safety Manager at the Frenchay Hospital at the North Bristol NHS Trust, and she had been unable to attend the day. She had focused on the risk management issues associated with the sinking of the Titanic and had based it on the actual reports written following the disater. There was no mention of Leonardo or Kate, of course. It was also a clever approach when one looks at what happened, and inspired this article by Jim Miller. The mistakes were fundamental and the risk management issues are absolutely classic. Jill associated some of the lessons learnt with what is happening in the NHS, which can, in turn, be applied to a specific team, to a department or to an organisation.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D004517:Education, Professional; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012308:Risk Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom; D016526:Workload