Spotlight: Patient safety and NCDs (45) Publish on Patient Safety and Non-Communicable Disease: Challenges and Solutions

19 September, 2026

Hello HIFA community 

We are looking for you to publish with us in a special collection of articles in Frontiers of Public Health Impact Factor 4.1 . Please join us. 

The following manuscript types are suitable and aligned with the themes of the WHO WPSD:

https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-patient-safety-day/2026

The concept is a group of curated papers that address the following questions:

• How can we design health services to be safer for people with NCDs?

• What role can the study of health systems play in designing and delivering safer care for people with NCDs?

• How can patients and families themselves be involved in safety initiatives?

• How do we measure outcomes for safer care for people with NCDs?

• What are the barriers and enablers of safer care for people with NCDs?

• How can safer care be made more equitable?

• Application of Implementation Science, quality and safety improvement.

• Safe care across the continuum of care.

You can submit:

• Research on any of the themes on safety for people with NCDs

• The epidemiology of harm in people with NCDs

• The application of insights from health systems research and practice to facilitate safer care and their implications for public health policy and system-level governance

• Policy and practice evaluations of interventions to improve safety for people with NCDs

• Systematic and narrative reviews, particularly those with a focus on reviewing published interventions that have had impact

• View points

• Commentaries

• Priority-setting and rationale for public health policies addressing patient safety in NCD care Link for more details 

Link for information https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/85370/patient-safety-and-non...

Manuscript Submission Deadline 30 June 2027

Patient Safety and Non-Communicable Disease: Challenges and Solutions

frontiersin.org

Thank You 

Best regards

Peter Lachman 

Guest Editor 

HIFA profile: Peter Lachman works with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, United Kingdom. Professional interests: Paediatrics, Patient Safety, Quality. peter.lachman@gmail.com

Author: 
peter.lachman@gmail.com