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Patient safety. Patient safety systems. Patient safety systems are a fundamental foundation of the NHS patient safety strategy. Each of the many organisations that make up the English healthcare system (both NHS and non-NHS) has its own remit and responsibility for improving patient safety. Terms and conditions.
- Patient Safety
The NHS Patient Safety Strategy describes how the NHS will...
- The NHS Patient Safety Strategy
The National Patient Safety Team are supporting the NHS to...
- Patient Safety
The NHS Patient Safety Strategy describes how the NHS will continuously improve patient safety, building on the foundations of a safer culture and safer systems. The strategy sets out how the NHS will support staff and providers to share safety insight and empower people – patients and staff – with the skills, confidence and mechanisms to ...
- Common Sources of Patient Harm
- Factors Leading to Patient Harm
- System Approach to Patient Safety
- Who Response
Medication errors. Medication-related harm affects 1 out of every 30 patients in health care, with more than a quarter of this harm regarded as severe or life threatening. Half of the avoidable harm in health care is related to medications (3). Surgical errors. Over 300 million surgical procedures are performed each year worldwide (6). Despite awar...
Patient harm in health care due to safety breaks is pervasive, problematic and can occur in all settings and at all levels of health care provision. There are multiple and interrelated factors that can lead to patient harm, and more than one factor is usually involved in any single patient safety incident: 1. system and organizational factors: the ...
Most of the mistakes that lead to harm do not occur as a result of the practices of one or a group of health and care workers but are rather due to system or process failures that lead these health and care workers to make mistakes. Understanding the underlying causes of errors in medical care thus requires shifting from the traditional blaming app...
Global action on patient safety
Recognizing patient safety as a global health priority, and as an essential component of strengthening health systems for moving towards universal health coverage, the Seventy-second World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA72.6on “Global action on patient safety” in May 2019. The resolution requested the Director-General to emphasize patient safety as a key strategic priority in WHO’s work across the universal health coverage agenda, endorsed the establishment of World Patient Safety Day...
Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030
The Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030provides a framework for action for key stakeholders to join efforts and implement patient safety initiatives in a comprehensive manner. The goal is “to achieve the maximum possible reduction in avoidable harm due to unsafe health care globally”, envisioning “a world in which no one is harmed in health care, and every patient receives safe and respectful care, every time, everywhere”.
World Patient Safety Day
Since 2019, World Patient Safety Dayhas been celebrated across the world annually on 17 September, calling for global solidarity and concerted action by all countries and international partners to improve patient safety. The global campaign, with its dedicated annual theme, is aimed at enhancing public awareness and global understanding of patient safety and mobilizing action by stakeholders to eliminate avoidable harm in health care and thereby improve patient safety.
The National Patient Safety Team are supporting the NHS to achieve the strategy’s aims through a series of programmes and areas of work. All of this work relates to the strategy’s foundations of ‘patient safety culture’ and ‘patient safety systems’, and the three strategic aims ‘insight’, ‘involvement’ and ‘improvement’.
4. The safety case. 4.1 Builds a safety case with defined scope, an evaluation of safety level, description of risks, risk control measures and residual risks. 4.2 Applies the safety case as a tool to measure and monitor safety. 4.3 Uses the safety case to address residual risks through improvement activities.
Our guidelines make evidence based, best practice recommendations. Implementing these helps to improve patient safety and reduce the risk of harm across the health system. Our Interventional Procedures Programme has a focus on patient safety and considers if procedures are both safe and work well enough for use. The programme gives advice on ...
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Patient safety is a property that emerges from systems design. Patient safety must be an attribute of the health care system. Patient safety seeks high reliability under conditions of risk. Illness presents the first condition of risk in health care. Patient safety applies to the second condition: the therapeutic intervention.
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