WHO Patient Safety: Making health care safer
Announcing the release of WHO’s brochure: Patient Safety: Making health care safer. This advocacy material illustrates the importance of safe care for everyone, what the burden and impact of unsafe care is, and WHO’s approach to tackling the issue of unsafe care. The brochure also contains a comprehensive collation of key WHO materials and activities in to generate improvements at the front line.
Medication Without Harm
The WHO's Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm brochure has been released, outlining the vision and strategic direction of this global initiative aiming to reduce the level of severe, avoidable harm related to medications by 50% over the next five years, globally. It provides an overview of the key components of the Challenge including the local, national and global action to be taken.
Medication without harm - the journey begins
The Global Launch of the next Global Patient Safety Challenge on “Medication without harm” took place in Bonn, Germany, on 29 March 2017. WHO’s goal for this Global Patient Safety Challenge is to achieve widespread engagement and commitment from WHO Member States and professional bodies around the world to reduce the harm associated with medication. This global launch sought to raise awareness and encourage commitment from leaders and policy-makers around the world on this important issue.
Patient Safety first
A Second Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety was held on 29-30 March 2017 in Bonn, Germany, elevating patient safety as a global health priority. On 29 March, experts gathered to deliberate key topics in six workshops to gain consensus and synthesize key information for reporting back to the Ministers of Health from participating countries. Two of these workshops was coordinated by WHO – “Global Patient Safety: Perspectives from low- and middle-income countries” and the “Global launch of the WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safety”. High level delegates and Ministers of Health displayed overwhelming support on the following day for a World Patient Safety Day.
Workshop: Perspectives from low- and middle-income countries
Many governments are faced with tightening budget constraints and increasing pressure to improve health system performance. Spreading insightful and evidenced-based practices and processes around the globe is one of the most efficient ways to designing safer health systems. This workshop, which took place at the Second Global Patient Safety Ministerial Summit on 29 March in Bonn, Germany, focused upon low- and middle-income country perspectives on patient safety, and how to implement effective safety strategies despite major constraints and limited resources.
WHO Technical Series on Safer Primary Care
14 December 2016 - WHO launched a Technical Series on Safer Primary Care, presented as a set of nine key learning monographs which summarize the evidence and experience of different strategies for improving patient safety in primary care. A webinar on Safer Primary Care to introduce and launch the technical series was held on 16 December. The technical series addresses selected priority areas which countries can prioritize according to local needs. It is our hope that this technical series will make a valuable and timely contribution to the planning and delivery of safer primary care services in all WHO Member States.
Patient Safety
WHO Patient Safety endevours to prevent harm to patients during the process of health care itself
Highlights
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7 June 2017
Minimal Information Model User Guide
Minimal Information Model for Patient Safety (MIM PS) has been developed to provide a simple tool to start collecting data on patient safety incidents. This user guide aims to explain each of the categories and how to implement MIM PS.
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19 May 2017
WHO’s brochure: Patient Safety: Making health care safer
This advocacy material illustrates the importance of safe care for everyone, what the burden and impact of unsafe care is, and WHO’s approach to tackling the issue of unsafe care. The brochure contains a comprehensive collation of key WHO materials and activities in to generate improvements at the front line.
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19 May 2017
WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm
This brochure outlines the vision and strategic direction of this global initiative aiming to reduce the level of severe, avoidable harm related to medications by 50% over the next five years, globally. It provides an overview of the key components of the Challenge including the local, national and global action to be taken.
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16 December 2016
Technical Series on Safer Primary Care
The WHO Technical Series on Safer Primary Care is a series of monographs that describes issues and potential solutions for improving patient safety in primary care.
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24-26 September 2016
Expert consultation on Setting Priorities for Global Patient Safety
Heralded as a "global think tank for thought leadership", this expert consultation aimed to set future priorties at the global level for advancing patient safety improvements.
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22-24 August 2016
Working Groups Meeting for the Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safety
Five groups of experts, separated to target key population and risk domains, in preparation for the upcoming "Medication without Harm" Global Patient Safety Challenge
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25 May 2016
69th World Health Assembly Side Event on Addressing the Global Challenge of Medication Safety
This side event at the 69th World Health Assembly explored country experiences, challenges and solutions for reducing medication-associated harm.
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19-20 April 2016
Planning for the Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safety
A consultation with renowned international experts to plan, scope and set goals for the forthcoming Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safety
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22-24 March 2016
Inter-Regional Consultation on Patient Safety Incident Reporting and Learning Systems in Africa and Asia Pacific Regions
Through convening key stakeholders from low- and middle-income countries, and international experts, this meeting sought to review success stories, assess progress and provide concrete input for guideline to set up and enhance patient safety incident reporting and learning systems.
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9-10 March 2016
Patient Safety Global Action Summit
This expert and ministerial summit aspired to galvanize international policy and governmental actors to prioritize patient safety at all levels.
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8-10 February 2016
WHO Interregional Technical Consultation on Best Practices in Patient Safety and Quality of Care - Muscat, Oman
A consultation on exchanging evidence-based interventions and international best practices as part of the establishment and evolution of the WHO Global Patient Safety Network.