The Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030

Mondher Letaief

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Abstract

Patient safety is fundamental to the provision of health care in all settings. However, avoidable adverse events, errors, and risks associated with health care remain major challenges for patient safety globally. The objective is to describe the rationale behind the need for a global action on patient safety as foundational to achieve the UHC agenda and reduce the heavy burden of unsafe care regionally and globally. The presentation will list the upstream steps that have led to the global movement along with the related milestones that supported the development and adoption of the Global Patient Safety action plan that provides a strategic direction for all stakeholders for eliminating avoidable harm in health care and improving patient safety in different practice domains through policy actions on safety and quality of health services, as well as for implementation of recommendations at the point of care. The action plan provides a framework for countries to develop their respective national action plans on patient safety, as well as to align existing strategic instruments for improving patient safety in all clinical and health-related programs. To this extent, this presentation will share some key recommendations to countries from the EMR on the needed steps for the a well-contextualized improvement program for the successful implementation of the Global Patient Safety Action Plan.

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Biography

Prof. Dr Mondher Letaief: is a Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University Hospital of Monastir, Tunisia. Dr Letaief’s areas of expertise cover Quality and patient safety improvement (training, research, implementation of QI interventions and assessment) as well as preventive medicine and public health. Before he joined Who, Dr Letaief occupied the position of regional director of health in Monastir, Tunisia. He also led the coordination of a national research unit on quality and patient safety as well as several academic and international educational activities in the field of public health and healthcare management. He also collaborated with WHO on a number of projects such as the EMR Adverse Events study, the Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Initiative, the education and training programme on Patient Safety Research, the WHO tools for Data-poor Hospital project and the pilot implementation of the Performance Assessment Tool for Hospitals, the WHO Patient Safety in primary care experts panel and the WHO Patient Safety Research ethic guidelines experts and the WHO PS curriculum implementation. Dr Mondher Letaief is member of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) JCI advisory council, the advisory board of the MENA Health Policy Forum and the JCI Editorial Advisory Board. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, expert reviewer…