APPS Achievements
"We have faced many challenges together but achieved gains in a short time – in fact the patient safety approach at Gondar has been used by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health in hospitals across the country.”
Dr Gashaw Getahun – APPS Focal Point, Gondar Hospital, Ethiopia
Objective 1 Achievements: Partnership Strength
The unique partnership approach to tackling patient safety has worked very effectively in some cases; hard lessons have been learned in others. The APPS network has refined and led global thinking in the area of partnership development that is now being used by partnership-focused organizations across the world.
14 Hospital to Hospital APPS Partnerships
Established 14 Hospital to Hospital APPS Partnerships between countries in Africa and Europe - the first of their kind centred on developing safer health-care systems.
Definition of Partnership and working principles
APPS has engaged with first wave APPS partnerships to co-define a set of seven partnership principles on which hospital to hospital partnership working is based and co-developed as an APPS definition of partnership.
APPS Planning Framework
APPS has a 2-year patient safety partnership planning template developed and refined by APPS through joint working with the six first wave partnerships. This can now be used by any hospital-to-hospital partnership focusing on patient safety.
Partnership Workshops
Developed a model for partnership workshops, designed for partners to identify priorities and undertake technical planning, and hosted three workshops to support patient safety partnership development.
Measurement of Partnership Strength
Co-developed a mechanism to evaluate the strength of individual partnerships – this can be used in both patient safety and other types of institutional partnerships.
Literature Synthesis – Learning from the “developing world”
Conducted a first-of-its-kind synthesis of developing country innovations that can potentially inform health systems in developed countries focused on the concept of "reverse innovation".
Partnership Focused Organizations - Bridge
APPS partnerships have provided a “patient safety bridge” between organizations with a focus on partnership-based approaches to health system improvement.