Singapore General Hospital Best Practices Mapped to GPSAP

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Singapore General Hospital (SGH) is the first and largest hospital in Singapore. It provides affordable specialist care for patients, training for doctors and other health care professionals, and conducts research to bring better care to its patients. It is also a leading teaching hospital for undergraduate medical training as well as postgraduate and advanced training of specialist doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.

SGH Office of Patient Safety and Quality (OPSQ) adopted the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030, to design, implement and evaluate the health care facility strategies in building and strengthening patient safety.

In this submitted resources by SGH OPSQ, it summarizes key insights into driving GPSAP Strategic Objectives 2, 3 and 5 and Strategies 2.2, 3.3 and 5.1 respectively:

1. Good governance for health care systems

2. Infection prevention and control and antimicrobial resistance

3. Incorporating patient safe curriculum in interprofessional education