Overview
Global Patient Safety Challenge
The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Global Patient Safety Challenge to address pressing issues of patient harm in health care settings. Since 2005, the challenges were initiated to raise awareness, drive actions and promote strategies for improving patient safety on a global scale.
Key elements of the challenges include focus on:
Areas of priority on specific areas as guided by the theme of each challenge
Guidelines and recommendations as well as best practices to assist health care facilities, professionals and stakeholders in implementing effective strategies to enhance patient safety
Data collection and sharing to provide essential understanding of the scope of focus and improvement change made
Capacity building as each challenge often involve capacity building efforts such as training to equip health care professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills
Global collaboration between countries, health care facilities, and stakeholders to share experiences, successes and challenges in improving patient safety
The Global Patient Safety Challenges introduced to-date are:
In this improvement journey, we invite you to share your patient safety improvement experiences, aligned to the Global Patient Safety Action Plan (GPSAP) 2021-2030. Your sharing will contribute to robust global knowledge sharing for patient safety.