We're looking forward to our Spotlight discussion this week on patient safety and NCDs, 14-20 September.
Here are further details: www.hifa.org/patientsafety
Our guiding questions are:
1. What is unsafe care and what is its local and global impact?
2. What are the main causes of unsafe care for people living with NCDs? To what extent is access to reliable healthcare information a determinant of patient safety?
3. What can be done to better understand and improve health systems for safer care for people living with NCDs?
4. How can we better support patients and primary and facility-based health workers to deliver safe care?
Please feel free to contribute a message on any of the above, or indeed any aspect of patient safety and/or NCDs.
The Spotlight working group includes Meena Cherian, Ashwarthy Sunil, Charles Vincent, Diana Zandi and myself and we look forward to your participation.
We are especially interested to hear examples from your own experience, whether professional or personal. Email to: hifa@hifaforums.org
We aim to develop a concise learning brief for publication on the WHO Health Services Learning Hub (HLH), reflecting experience in different contexts and countries.
Many thanks, Neil
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org