Welcome to our Spotlight on Patient safety and noncommunicable disease. Thanks to sponsorship from WHO we shall focus on this topic for seven days, from 14-20 September inclusive.
We propose four guiding questions:
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?
We invite you to share your experience, expertise and thoughts by email to: hifa@hifaforums.org
We shall then collate, edit, and synthesize discussion contributions as a concise learning brief for publication on the WHO Health Services Learning Hub (HLH).
For more information see our landing page: www.hifa.org/patientsafety
With thanks,
Neil Pakenham-Walsh
On behalf of the Spotlight working group: Meena Cherian, Diana Zandi, Charles Vincent, Ashwarthy Sunil, NPW.
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