ISQua Membership Bulletin

World Patient Safety Day

Announcing the first World Patient Safety Day

For the very first time, on 17th September 2019, World Patient Safety Day will be marked with events around the world to raise awareness of the need to establish patient safety as a global health priority. The day brings stakeholders together in an effort to reduce the unintended harm caused by healthcare.

 

No one should be harmed in health care. And yet thousands of patients in the world suffer avoidable harm or are put at risk of injury while receiving health care every single day. Patient safety is the prevention of harm and the reduction of risk of injury and errors in health care.

 

The objective of the very first World Patient Safety Day is to raise global awareness about patient safety with the theme ‘Patient Safety: a global health priority’. Openness and ‘blame-free’ environments are the minimum conditions for enacting a safety culture.

 

Hence, to promote open communication for learning from errors and to emphasize the importance of patient safety, the slogan for World Patient Safety Day 2019 is “Speak up for patient safety!”

ISQua and World Patient Safety Day

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

 

https://www.isqua.org/events/world-patient-safety-day-2019.html

We are also hosting a special Virtual Coffee Break on 17th September at 2pm (Dublin) dedicated to patient safety. 

 

The discussion topic for the break is 'World Patient Safety Day: How can we promote open communication for learning from errors and emphasize the importance of patient safety?'

 

The concept behind the Virtual Coffee Break is to create an environment that fosters an informal chat amongst participants. It is an online webinar where you will be assigned into breakout rooms of 4-10 participants. Here you will have the ability to speak with one another in a virtual “face-to-face” environment. 

 

There are still some spaces available, you can find out more, and register here - 

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/b21e2f7ef2a4c46c7510d14dfea9e911

Joint Statement from ISQua and IHF for World Patient Safety Day

Today, on the first World Patient Safety Day, the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) and the International Hospital Federation (IHF) join in the worldwide celebration of World Patient Safety Day. ISQua and IHF are committed to improving patient safety and healthcare quality worldwide. This permeates and guides all of our deliberations and work.

 

We make our statement based on five key principles:

  1. The right of people to safe and high-quality care
  2. The importance of person-centred care as the foundation for safety
  3. The essential nature of a safety culture to facilitate safe care
  4. The need to base all interventions on Patient Safety Theory and Methodologies to improve processes and outcomes
  5. The importance of learning from what works well

ISQua and IHF endorse the message of the World Health Organization (WHO) to ‘Speak up for patient safety!’ We are confident that all of our members share our principles and are working towards the goal of Zero Harm.

 

Read the full statement here:

Joint ISQua & IHF Statement for WPSD.pdf

World Patient Safety Day Comments & Blogs

We asked our Experts and Patient Representatives for their thoughts regarding current patient safety conditions in their region and how they, and other caregivers & advocates can speak up for patient safety. We are delighted with the response!

https://www.isqua.org/events/world-patient-safety-day-2019.html/#blogs

Activities and Events

Organisations, hospitals and individuals across the world are hosting events both big and small to spread the message to 'Speak up for Patient Safety!'

 

You can find out information on all of the below activities here - https://www.isqua.org/events/world-patient-safety-day-2019.html#Activities_and_events

  • The Ministry of Health Malaysia and the Malaysian Society for Quality in Health (MSQH) are jointly hosting a one-day Seminar and the launch of World Patient Safety Day at the Everly Hotel in Putrajaya
  • The Irish Health Service (Health Service Executive (HSE)) and the Department of Health have a number of activities planned - including the lighting up of the Department of Health
  • In Cape Town & the Western Cape, hospitals will drape orange around their buildings and grounds; and COHSASA have launched a client poster campaign and will be lighting up the Nelson Mandela Statue
  • Professor Cliff Hughes (ISQua past President) will be speaking on the topic, Safety in Healthcare - State of the Art or State of Mind in Macquarie University, Australia
  • The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin, Ireland are hosting their 2nd annual National Maternity Hospital Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW) 2019 from 21st - 25th October 2019. 
  • Hôpitaux Universitaires Genève (HUG) are hosting a one day conference on the theme: Creating the framework conditions for the success of quality initiatives.
  • The Quality & Accreditation Institute (QAI), India have designed a Standee which is being sent to all healthcare institutions in their database as well put up on their website for use.
  • Wockhardt Group Hospitals, which is a chain of super-speciality hospitals in India are organizing a week-long event on Patient safety across all their Group Hospitals from 13-17th Sept 2019.
  • CPSI, Patient for Patients Safety Canada, HSO and CAE Healthcare have an exclusive screening of To Err is Human. Attendees can participate in a panel discussion, & network with senior Canadian Healthcare leaders who are working to make care safer.
  • Under the patronage of HRH Princess Mona Al-Hussein, the Health Care Accreditation Council is launching the Change Day initiative for the sixth time. Le Royal Hotel, a very prominent hotel tower in Jordan will be lighting up for #WorldPatientSafetyDay and #ChangeDay.

Patient Safety Webinars and Open Access Articles

We have selected some of our favourite ISQua Patient Safety related webinars to share with you and highlighted some of the many available open access articles on Patient Safety.