Global patient safety action plan

Question 1

Why do we need a Global Patient Safety Action Plan?

Answer 1

Patient harm due to unsafe care is a
large and growing global public health
challenge

• Leading causes of death and disability
  worldwide
• Most of this patient harm is avoidable
• Reduced public confidence and trust in
  local health systems
• Human costs
• Patient and family
• Health care workers suffer psychological harm
• Economic and financial cost

Question 2

What is patient safety?

Answer 2

organized activities that
creates cultures, processes, procedures,
behaviors, technologies and environments in
health care that consistently and sustainably
lower risks, reduce the occurrence of
avoidable harm, make errors less likely and
reduce the impact of harm when it does
occur.

Question 3

Vision

Answer 3

A worl in which no one si harmed in health care and every patient receives safe and respectful care everewhere

Question 4

Mission

Answer 4

Drive forward:
.policies
-strategies
-actions
based on science, patinet experience, system design and parterships, to errase all the posible risk

Question 5

Goal

Answer 5

Achieve the maximum possible reduction in avoidable harm due to unsafe health care globally

Question 6

7 guiding principles

Answer 6

1. Engage patient and families
   2.Collaborative working
   3.Analyse and share data
2. Translate evidence into
   actionable and measurable
   improvement
3. Base policies and action on the
   nature of the care setting
4. Use both scientific
   expertise and patient
   experience to improve safety
   7.Instill a safety culture

Question 7

Engage patient and families

Answer 7

As users of the health care system
and the people who are most
familiar with the entire patient
journey.

• Patients be informed, involved and
  treated as full partners in their own
  care

Question 8

Collaborative working

Answer 8

Everybody (from global policy-
makers to front-line service
providers) contributes, shares and
learns

Question 9

Analyse and share data

Answer 9

Sources of data, including
malpractice claims, patient-reported
experience and outcome measures,
clinical care audits, medical record
reviews, surveys, et

Question 10

Base policies and action on the nature of the care setting

Answer 10

++ attention and research in
patient safety based on
experience of high-resourced
health care systems and large
hospital.

Question 11

Use both scientific
expertise and patient
experience to improve safety

Answer 11

Formulating and delivering a
plan requires scientific and
technical expertise, but also
insight of those who remember
that too many past patients and
families have suffered loss and
serious harm as a result of
flawed health care

Question 12

Instill a safety culture

Answer 12

Culture of safety has to percolate
into the attitudes, beliefs, values,
skills and practices of health
workers, managers and leaders of
health care organizations.