patient safety

Thursday, September 16, 2021 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm BST This World Patient Safety Day (WPSD) on 17th September 2021 is dedicated to safe maternal and newborn care in acknowledgment of the significant burden of avoidable harm women and newborns are exposed to due to unsafe care, particularly around the...

Theme: Safe maternal and newborn care With the world still facing the COVID-19 pandemic and the inequities that surfaced as a result, the most vulnerable and marginalized populations are being disproportionately affected not only due to the direct effects of the pandemic and lack of access to...

The WHO Patient Safety flagship is organizing a public event to launch and introduce the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030 to all stakeholders. This global action plan aspires for “a world in which no one is harmed in health care, and every patient receives safe and respectful care, every...

Patient Safety: a global health priority Slogan: Speak up for Patient Safety! This first annual World Patient Safety Day (WPSD) is a moment for the global health community to come together to raise public awareness, understanding and engagement globally of the need to work towards global solidarity...

In recognition of the scale of avoidable harm linked with unsafe medication practices and medication errors, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the third Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm in 2017. The goal was and still is to reduce severe, avoidable medication-...

The 7th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit will be co-convened by the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the European Society of Anaesthesiology. The 2019 Summit will gather international hospital leaders, medical and information technology companies, the patient...

"The mission of this conference is to provide safe & quality health services to all patients in Pakistan." To initiate and support this journey of patient safety in Pakistan, top leaders in patient safety from across the world and relevant local stakeholders will come together to share &...

The 4th Global Ministerial Patient Summit will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 2-3, 2019 under the theme: Universal Health Coverage & Patient Safety. The global event will bring together health ministers from more than 50 countries, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (...