World Patient Safety Day 2021

The third World Patient Safety Day was held on 17th September 2021 with the theme ‘Safe Maternal and Newborn Care’.

The objectives of World Patient Safety Day are to increase public awareness and engagement, enhance global understanding, and spur global solidarity and action to promote patient safety. Each year, a new theme is selected to shed light on a priority patient safety area where action is needed to reduce avoidable harm in health care and achieve universal health coverage.

Since women’s experiences during childbirth are also affected by issues of gender equity and violence, World Patient Safety Day highlights the important notion of respectful care and its linkages with safety. 

WHO OFFICIAL WEBPAGE - https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-patient-safety-day/2021 

To support and promote World Patient Safety Day, we created a web page to showcase blog posts, opinion pieces, activities, events, webinars and more from across the ISQua Community.

This included a selection of Maternal and Newborn health-related Articles from the International Journal for Quality in Health Care. These articles have been made freely available until December 2021. https://academic.oup.com/intqhc/pages/world-patient-safety-day.

Isabela Castro, ISQua’s Honorary Patient Advisor to the Board shared her thoughts in a blog post. 

All of these activities and articles can be found on - https://isqua.org/events/world-patient-safety-day-2021.html