Sunday 9th of June the SHARE Centre for Resilience in Healthcare hosted the annul Resilient in Healthcare Society Meeting of 2024. With presenters coming from a large international resilience in healthcare community such as Norway, Sweden, Brazil, USA, UK, Japan and Taiwan,
The conference participants got a glimpse of the current state of resilience in healthcare research across the world. Due to a spike in interest in resilience in healthcare research, as well as an increased number of resilience in healthcare related projects, the conference experience great interest and were able to host the largest number of participants for any RHCS conference with over 75 participants.
Over the course of the conference the participants had the opportunity to attend 12 different sessions, with over 40 different oral presenters and 22 lightening talks. The themes ranged from Resilient performance and adaptive capacity, to strategies, tools and interventions for translating resilience into practice, as well as stakeholder involvement, theory development, governance, and policy recommendations. The conference hosts is particularly proud that one of the founders of the Resilience in Healthcare Society, Erik Hollnagel were able to atted, and give the lecture: 'From managing healthcare safety to managing healthcare safely -- a different perspective' for both new and old members to enjoy. Different to other conferences this conference particularly values the opportunity to discuss and have lengthy conversations after each presentation. This year the discussions clearly showed that the larger number of resilience in healthcare related research projects have moved the conversation and the field forward, also moving the conversation towards new aspects such as policy recommendations, tools and measurement of resilient performance.
From the organizing committees perspectives the conference was a huge success, both related to the discussions, the large number of participants and all the satisfied guests. ‘When you spend so much time working on a particular field of interest such as resilience, it is a great pleasure to be able to discuss it in such details with other researchers. Being able to meet across the globe provides us with the opportunity to see differences as well as similarities. It is fascinating to learn that even between very different cultures such as Japan and Norway it is similar capacities that make up the components of resilience, says Haraldseid-Driftland. ‘We are also particularly proud of being able to show the participants Norway and the beautiful surroundings at Sola beach Hotel and Sola Ruin Church were we together with Edge of Norway were able to host a small concert for the participants’.
Next year the conference is going to be hosted in Brazil, by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
The members of the organizing comitte dessed up i national costumes to give the participants a taste of Norwegian culture. From left: Siri Wiig, Hilda Bø Lyng, Inger Johanne Bergerød, Birte Fagerdal, Lene Schibevaag, Cecilie Haraldseid-Driftland and Veslemøy Guise
Walk and talk is a part of the program at the conference. Here some of the participants enjoy the beach at Sola Beach hotel together with Siri Wiig
The participants had the pleasure of visiting Sola Ruin Church where a small concert was hosted.
Siri Wiig together with Erik Hollnagel a pioner in the field of Resilience in healthcare.