ASIA PACIFIC PATIENT SAFETY NETWORK
"We aim for a patient safety culture that promotes patient engagement, encourages reporting, improves learning from errors, and fosters a blame-free environment where healthcare personnel are empowered and trained to prevent errors."
~ Dr Tedros, WHO Director-General
Our Concern
Patient Safety is a health care discipline that aims to prevent and reduce risks, errors, and harm that occur to patients during the provision of health care. As per WHO, millions of patients are harmed every year due to unsafe medication practices, 2.6 million deaths annually in low-and middle-income countries alone. Today, patient harm due to unsafe care is a large and growing global public health concern and is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Most of this patient harm is avoidable.
Our mission is to advocate for patient safety, where everyone receives safe and high-quality medical care while reducing unavoidable harm due to unsafe care across the globe.
“Advocating for safe, equitable and high quality care”
- The occurrence of adverse events due to unsafe care is likely one of the 10 leading causes of death and disability in the world
- In high-income countries, it is estimated that one in every 10 patients is harmed while receiving hospital care . The harm can be caused by a range of adverse events, with nearly 50% of them being preventable.
- Each year, 134 million adverse events occur in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), due to unsafe care, resulting in 2.6 million deaths
- Another study has estimated that around two-thirds of all adverse events resulting from unsafe care, and the years lost to disability and death (known as disability adjusted life years, or DALYs) occur in LMICs .
- Globally, as many as 4 in 10 patients are harmed in primary and outpatient health care. Up to 80% of harm is preventable. The most detrimental errors are related to diagnosis, prescription and the use of medicines.
- In OECD countries, 15% of total hospital activity and expenditure is a direct result of adverse events.
- Investments in reducing patient harm can lead to significant financial savings, and more importantly better patient outcomes (2). An example of prevention is engaging patients, if done well, it can reduce the burden of harm by up to 15%.
Source : World Health Organisation
Speaking for Patient Safety to Save Lives
Patient safety is essential to providing high quality health care. With the partnership and empowerment of patients, families, caregivers, healthcare workers it becomes important to educate, train and build their knowledge and capability, so to contribute and play a functional role in the whole care process and journey.
How can I contribute?
Individual
You can take action individually, showing that patient safety is a priority and that you care about it.
Organisation
You can take action on behalf of your organization, showing that your organization is committed towards patient safety.
Call to Action
We invite patients, patient advocates, caregivers, pharmacists, healthcare workers, policymakers and industry experts to take the pledge to support the statements to address patient safety across the globe.
Patient advocates from throughout the Asia-Pacific region gathered under one umbrella on the 17th of November 2021, to explore some of the nuances that must be addressed to ensure patient safety. These conversations culminated in 5 strategies which are aligned to WHO GPSAP 2021-2030 in Strategic Objective 4: Patient and Family Engagement, namely:
- Engage- Partner and Engage patients, families and civil society organizations in co-development of policies, plans, strategies, programmes and guidelines to make health care safer.
- Learn- Learn from the experience of patients and families exposed to unsafe care to improve understanding of the nature of harm and foster the development of more effective solutions.
- Capacity Building- Build the capacity of patient advocates and champions in patient safety.
- Transparency- Establish the principle and practice of openness and transparency throughout health care, including through patient safety disclosure to patients (and families when permitted).
- Education & Empowerment- Provide information and education to patients and families for their involvement in self-care and empower them for shared decision-making in relation to patient safety.
Sign the Statement and Call to Action
Signatories
Individuals
Dr. Ratna Devi
Ankit Dabra
Asawari Sathaye
Arshia Bhandari
Tamanna Sachdeva
Atmala Suresh Babu
Khushboo Sharma
Utkarsh Saxena
Luxmi Chand Thakur
Avinash Deo
Nilesh Raj
Bikash Prasad
Nitika
Chitransh Saxena
Harsheen Kaur
Sneha Bhonsle
Dr Siva Kumar Buddha
Sravani Marpaka
Michael Alzona
Dr. Subhash C Mandal
John Christopher Kondareddy
Kamal Raj
Deepali Garg
Rakesh Gupta
Shikha Bhasin
Suneel Vatsyayan
Tanya Rajvedi
Swati Bhave
Jyotsna Govil
Subir Vishwas
Anil Bhaya MD
Shubhashree Samal
Dhruva Sreenivasa Chakravarthi
Ajit singh
Pratibha Nadig
Clarinda Cerejo
Sanket Salvi
Mridula Kapil Bhargava
Dr Rakesh Banoth
Pritam A Sinhaa
Leena Gupta
Debakshee Mukherjee
India
Ugwu Angela Hog
Nigeria
Jamie Batarlo
Dr. Yolanda Robles
Karen Ida Villanueva
Fredeswinda Samonte
Melvie Delgado
Margie Codilla
Josephine Quiambao
Dolores Galesia
Liberty Calla
Nora Evangelista
Marissa Torres
Liezl Bartolay
Zenaida Langris
Maria Cristina Lulu
Ronel Victoria
Marimel Lamsin
Grace De Los Arcos
Norina Gonzales
Veronica Salanap
Genevive Martinez
Lolita Mendoza
Christopher Mendoza
Maria Hannah Azul
Philippines
Shireen Safodien
Saudi Arabia
Omar Rifai
Lebanon
Prof. Francesco Venneri
Italy
Mohammad Alam
Bangladesh
Nithushi Samaranayake
Dr. Kapila Wickramanayake
Dhanya Wijesuriya
Dr Mahen Wijesuriya
Demetrius Thamilini
Sanjeevan Fernando
Sri Lanka
Muhammad Qasim
Dr. Junaid Naeem
Pakistan
Amrahi Buang
Ranjit Kaur Pritam Singh
Malaysia
Peter Lachman
Ireland
Russell McGowan
Australia
Autumn Jose
Bonnie Prosser
USA
Organisations
#UniteForPatientSafety Campaign
We wish to show that people are #United for Patient Safety
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Patient Safety Mission
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Our aim is for every patient to receive secure and safe care.
BENEFITS?
We will highlight your organization’s name as well as your commitment to patient safety!
We wish others to follow your footsteps and be bold pioneers on the road to safe and secure care, just as you and your organisation has done.
You’ll also be included in a list of individuals who are making patient safety a top priority for global health and asking patients, healthcare workers, policymakers, and the health-care sector to ‘UniteForPatientSafety’
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