Prof Chua Hong Choon
Chief Executive Officer,
Khoo Teck Puat Hospital & Yishun Health, Singapore
Prof Chua Hong Choon is Chief Executive Officer of Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) & Yishun Health in Singapore.
A psychiatrist by training, Prof Chua is also Adjunct Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine NTU, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Yong Loo Lin Medical School NUS. Prof Chua has keen interests in the fields of public health, quality & safety in health care, psychiatric epidemiology, and depression. He completed the first nationwide epidemiological survey of Depressive and Anxiety Disorders in Adult Singaporeans in 2004, and from 2007 to 2010, he was Senior Consultant (mental health) to Singapore’s Ministry of Health to oversee several major projects to promote mental wellbeing and to expand mental health services for the nation. Dr Chua also served as Chairman of the national Residency Advisory Committee (RAC) for Psychiatry from 2011 to 2021.
Presentation Synopsis
HM 9 - Connecting the dots – Abuse and Harassment in the Healthcare Ecosystem
Impact of Abuse & Harassment on the Healthcare Ecosystem
Abusive and harassing patients not only causes risk to staff, in term of physical / motivation / emotion, but the whole healthcare system and other patients. E.g. When staff are emotionally affected, they can make mistakes and become unmotivated and will not provide good care; time taken to deal with an abusive encounter is time taken away from care of other patients etc. The TWG Framework was developed with input from stakeholders to address the increasing burden of abuse and harassment in healthcare.
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