“Elevate the voice of patients!”

 

The World Patient Safety Day is a campaign for all stakeholders in the health care system to work together and share engagement to improve patient safety.

 

World Patient Safety Day 2023 will be observed on 17 September under the theme "Engaging patients for patient safety", in recognition of the crucial role patients, families and caregivers play in the safety of health care.

 

World Patient Safety Day 2023

 

Objectives of World Patient Safety Day 2023 are, on the one hand, to sensitize healthcare organizations and medical and nursing staff to how they can integrate and hear the voice of patients even more, and on the other hand, to empower patients themselves with their voice and make them aware of the importance of their role in healthcare.

 

Patient engagement and "speak up" are important concepts in healthcare to ensure that patients are actively involved in their treatment and that their needs and concerns are addressed. "Speak up" refers to the patient's ability to express their concerns or questions about health care. When patients raise their concerns, they can help identify and resolve potential problems early on. Patient engagement refers to the participation of patients in their own treatment. When patients are actively involved in their treatment, they can better understand and make more confident decisions about their healthcare. This can also help improve patient safety by encouraging patients to ask questions and participate in decision-making. Together, patient engagement and "Speak Up" can help improve the quality of healthcare and help ensure patients have a positive experience.

 

World Patient Safety Day is one of WHO’s global public health days. It was established in 2019 by the Seventy-second World Health Assembly through the adoption of resolution WHA72.6 – “Global action on patient safety”. Its objectives are to increase public awareness and engagement, enhance global understanding, and work towards global solidarity and action by Member States to enhance patient safety and reduce patient harm.

 

The German Coalition for Patient Safety / Aktionbündnis Patientensicherheit e.V. (APS) –  Exchange of experience and networking

 

The focus of quality-oriented health care is patient safety. Adverse events that are the unwanted result of treatment endanger patient safety. That is why the APS advocates strategies to avoid adverse events. Many undesirable events can be traced back to errors that arise as a result of complex processes involving the division of labor. The most important tool for improving patient safety is therefore learning from mistakes together.

 

The German Coalition for Patient Safety – Aktionbündnis Patientensicherheit e.V. (APS) – has been contributing its experience and network as a platform for the WORLD PATIENT SAFETY DAY since 2015. The Swiss Foundation for Patient Safety and the Austrian Platform for Patient Safety joined the idea at the time so it was a multi-country day of patient safety right from the start.

 

The APS would also like to promote networking internationally. The website patient-safety-day.org is intended to share knowledge and experience from a large number of projects and to promote suggestions for expanding and building patient safety internationally.

The APS publishes the results of its projects and makes them available free of charge to all institutions and interested parties in the German health care system. Recommendations for action are an important practical tool. Experts consult in interdisciplinary working groups and create instructions for the implementation of security strategies. Accompanying documents (e.g. information flyers, background brochures) supplement the recommendations for action.

We are happy to provide translations of these recommendations for action on this website.

 

 

 

Practical Guidance

Patient Information

The more you participate in the decisions affecting your treatment, the safer your treatment during your hospital stay will be

Patient Information

 

Patient Information

 

 

 

WHO campaign

 

We support the WHO international initiative for World Patient Safety Day

 

In May 2019, at the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva, 194 countries committed to recognizing patient safety as a health priority and taking steps to improve and ensure patient safety around the world. The World Health Assembly declared September 17th to be WORLD PATIENT SAFETY DAY and commissioned WHO to organize and establish September 17th as the annual World Patient Safety Day.

 

In 2019, the World Patient Safety Day took place for the first time worldwide – since then, the WHO has been focusing on patient safety on September 17th every year. The aim of the international initiative is to mobilize patients, health workers, policy makers, scientists, researchers, professional networks and the health industry to advocate patient safety and to increase public engagement on patient safety issues.

The WHO invites all healthcare organizations – institutions, academic organizations, companies, patient organizations – to take an active part in World Patient Safety Day and also to share their ideas on the subject of patient safety and to spread their commitment to patient safety to the general public.

 

Information on the international World Patient Safety Day and the WHO international campaign can be found on the World Health Organization website.

WHO Information 2023

 

 

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You are welcome to share your engagement

 

Every organization contributing to more patient safety is welcome. Please register and we will display your logo on the cooperating organizations page on this site. Your participation is very appreciated as a motivation for more and more others. We welcome you to join us!

 

 

Engagement for World Patient Day 2022

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Photo Credits: Prof. Kama Akinori, Gunma University, Japan, WHO Collaborating Centre; Dr. Ahmed G. Newera, Saudi Arabia; Dr Olabisi Ogunbase, Maternal and Child Centre, Ajah, Eti-Osa, Nigeria; Ghassan Shahrour, Arab Human Security Network

 

 

With friendly support of the German Federal Ministry of Health

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