Action on Patient Safety - High 5s

The Mission of the High 5s Project is to facilitate implementation and evaluation of standardized patient safety solutions within a global learning community to achieve measurable, significant, and sustained reductions in high risk patient safety problems.

This initiative has received support from the World Health Organization, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Commonwealth Fund in the USA, and is in support of WHO Patient Safety's efforts to improve patient safety worldwide. The initiative is coordinated by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety, which is led by the Joint Commission. Its initial development was supported by the established partnership of the Commonwealth Fund with Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America. In addition, plans are in progress to expand the initiative to include additional countries.

MEETINGS 2009 Steering Committee and train-the-trainers meeting 3-5 June 2009 2008 International Symposium on Health Care Policy - Commonwealth Fund 12-14 November 2008 2008 Steering Committee 5-7 November 2008 2007 International Symposium on Health Care Policy - Commonwealth Fund 1 November 2007 2007 Steering Committee 22-23 October 2007 2006 planning meeting Meeting report [pdf 200kb]

BACKGROUND AND RELATED LINKS High 5s: Update 2006-2007 More information [pdf 1.53Mb] Press release Action on patient safety (High 5s) initiative [pdf 69kb] High 5s Banners Download High 5s banners Patient Safety Solutions More information Archived Materials Project Plan