Global Patient Safety Action Plan Flashcards
Why is it necessary to have a Global Patient Safety Action Plan?
- Patient harm due to unsafe care is a global public health challenge
- Most os this harm is avoidable
- Human costs
What’s the vision of the GPS Action Plan?
A world where no one is harmed in healthcare, and every patient receives safe, and respectful care.
What’s the mission of GPSAP?
Drive forward policies, strategies and actions, based on science, to eliminate all sources of avoidable risk.
What are the 4 partners involved in the Global Patient Safety Action Plan?
- Governments
- Stakeholders
- WHO secretariat
- Health care facilities and services
What are the 7 guiding principles of the GPSAP?
- Engage patient and families
- Collaborative working
- Analyse and share data
- Translate evidence into actionable and measurable improvement
- Base policies and action on the nature
- Use scientific expertise and patient experience
- Instill a safety culture
Which are the components of the 7 principles:
- Leadership
- Commitment
- Transparency
Which are the seven strategic objectives in the GPSAP:
- Policies to eliminate avoidable harm
- High-reliability systems
- Safety of clinical processes
- Patient and family engagement
- Health worker education
- Information, research and risk management
- Synergy, partnership and solidarity
Resume the Objective I: Policies to eliminate avoidable harm
Make zero avoidable harm to patients a state of mind and a rule of engagement in healthcare planning and delivery.
Resume the Objective II: Building high-reliability health systems
This objective emphasizes the importance of applying organizational resilience principles in healthcare to prevent errors and learn.
- Learning from mistakes
- Learning from successful practices.
What’s about the Objective III: Safety of clinical processes?
Guarantee that every health care process (medication, infection, vaccines, transitions of care) is done in the best way
Strategic Objective IV: Patient and Family engagement
Engage and empower patients and families to help and support the journey to safer health care.
Main objective of the Strategy V: Healthworker education
Inspire, educate, skill and protect health workers to contribute to designing and delivering a safe care system.
Strategic Objective VI: Information, research and risk management.
Ensure a continuous exchange of information and knowledge to support risk mitigation, reduce preventable harm and enhance care safety.
Strategic Objective 7: Synergy, partnership and solidarity.
Strengthen networks, unify global efforts and embed patient safety principles across all healthcare programs through structured collaboration.
