Why names on theatre caps?

“95% of patients think name and role theatre caps are a good idea.”

- Patient Safety Network

“Surgeons only know 44% of their operating theatre teams names.”

- U.S. National Library of Medicine

“70% of adverse events in healthcare are related to communication errors.”

- World Health Organisation

“Humans only recall 30% of names after a first introduction, then we readily forget them.”

- Jeremy Dean, PhD

“Communication failures occur in 30% of operating theatre exchanges, a third of which lead to inefficiency, increased tension and risk adverse events.”

- BMJ Quality and Safety

“Knowing and recognising team members by name has been quantitatively and qualitatively associated with increased trust, work engagement and clinical improvement.”

- The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine