News and events

News

• Combating antimicrobial resistance: experiences from the field
  To be released early 2012
• Report on the Burden of Endemic Health Care-Associated Infection Worldwide
  Released on 5 May 2011
• Successful implementation of the WHO hand hygiene improvement strategy in a referral hospital in Mali, Africa
  2011 William Jarvis Award for the best international manuscript in 2010.
• High 5s Steering Committee meeting
  11-12 April 2011

• Past news

Newsletters

• WHO Patient Safety Newsletter
  Latest issue : October 2011
• Safe Surgery Saves Lives Newsletters
  Last issue : December 2010
• SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands newsletter
  Last issue : December 2011

Features

• Measuring the unmeasurable
  Sir Liam Donaldson
• Making progress in patient safety
  Peter Pronovost
• African Partnerships for Patient safety (APPS)
  Linking measurement to patient safety action
• Patient Safety Research
  Measuring the impact of interventions
• Patients for patient safety
  Measuring the impact of patient engagement on health-care safety
• Clean Care is Safer Care
  Indicators for a WHO global annual campaign - demonstrating commitment and action!

Events

• Past events