Mistakes win prizes in new competition

A new competition asks medical professionals, people with diabetes and members of the general public to enter a competition to share their mistakes. The competition, part of a project called Errordiary, opens on 15 October and hopes to tackle issues such as non-compliance with medication, the 'blame culture' of many hospitals, and the more general fear of mistake-making. Errordiary is based around a website where people can share their errors and resilience strategies by engaging with different media. People are able to share their posts via Twitter or directly through the website. The organisers, who are academics from the UCL Interaction Centre, are offering a total prize fund of £900, which is broken down into a series of £30 prizes for the person that posts the most, the person the posts the most interesting error, the funniest error, etc. Dominic Furniss, from the UCL Interaction Centre, said: "We want to stress that error is perhaps more normal and ubiquitous than people think and that error can be funny and very serious. "The competition is to encourage people to post their errors and resilience strategies.