The global patient safety problem
John Tingle argues unsafe health care is a global as well as a national NHS problem.
John Tingle argues unsafe health care is a global as well as a national NHS problem.
Unsafe health care is a global as well as a national NHS problem. The World Health Organisation, (WHO) have recently published their Global Patient Safety Report 2024 presenting important insights into the current state of patient safety across the world. The report is closely aligned to their Global patient safety action plan 2021–2030 providing updates on how the calls for action, ambitions, challenges made there are being met. The plan has 7 strategic objectives along with 35 supporting strategies. Strategic objective 1 for example calls for a zero-harm state of mind and a rule of engagement in the planning and delivery of health care everywhere (p.viii).
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