Description: Patient Engagement and empowerment is perhaps the most powerful tool to improve patient safety.
Find out how Project PIVOT is driving safety, diagnostic quality and equity through patient-reported measures.
Unsafe care results in over 2.6 million deaths per year and is considered one of the world’s leading causes of death. In 2019 the 72nd World Health Assembly issued a call to action, The “Global Action on Patient Safety”, that called for Member States to “work in collaboration with other Member States, civil society organizations, patients’ organizations, professional bodies, academic and research institutions, industry and other relevant stakeholders to promote, prioritize and embed patient safety in all he
The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with Member States and key international stakeholders, developed the “Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030” that provides a strategic direction for concrete actions to be taken by countries, stakeholders (including patients, family members, patient organizations and civil society), health care facilities and WHO to co-produce safer care around the world.