The 6th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit Kicked off with an Important Announcement about the Progress...
February 24 2018 - 5:00AM
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Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt
launches groundbreaking new measures to improve patient safety in
the National Health Service
The 6th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology
Summit kicked off with an important announcement about the progress
being made to save lives in hospital settings. Nearly 4,600
hospitals in 44 countries have committed to adopting patient safety
processes that are proven to eliminate preventable deaths in
hospitals.
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England’s Health and Social Care
Secretary, Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt, launches groundbreaking new
measures on Day One of the 6th Annual World Patient Safety, Science
& Technology held in London (Photo: Business Wire)
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation has taken on an inspiring
and ambitious goal of reducing preventable patient deaths in
hospitals to ZERO by 2020. The annual Summit in central London
plays a major role in taking on that challenge with the
participation of 300 global leaders, medical experts, medical
technology CEOs, and patient advocates.
“If I am standing here in 2020 and we have not reached zero
preventable deaths, then we at least better have implemented all of
the known processes for saving lives,” says Joe Kiani, Patient
Safety Movement Foundation Founder and Chairman. “That we can do
and we must do.”
The latest advances in patient safety, called Actionable Patient
Safety Solutions or (APSS), were announced today, including:
- Standardizing and Safeguarding
Medication Administration
- Person and Family Engagement
- Reducing Unnecessary C-Sections
- Nasogastric Feeding and Draining Tube
Placement and Verification
- Unplanned Extubation
- Early Detection & Treatment of
Sepsis, for Low- and Middle-income Countries
- Air Embolism
SUMMIT KEYNOTE SPEAKER REVEALS THE TRUE COST OF MEDICATION
ERRORS
Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt launched
groundbreaking new measures to improve patient safety in the
National Health Service (NHS) during his keynote speech on Day One
of the Summit.
The Secretary took action in response to a scathing report
published on Friday, which shows the shocking toll that medication
errors take on patients and the NHS system. The research – some of
the first of its kind in the world– shows that errors ranging from
delivering a prescription an hour late to a patient being given the
wrong medication, may cause approximately 1,700 deaths and are a
contributing factor in 22,000 more. The NHS estimates its losses at
£1.6 billion.
As a result, Secretary Hunt set out to reduce patient harm and
improve safety. These measures include:
- Creating new systems linking
prescribing data in primary care to hospital admissions
- Evaluate prosecutorial response only
should a pharmacist make an accidental medication errors due to
gross negligence or malice
- Accelerating the introduction of
electronic-prescribing systems across more NHS hospitals this
year.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION DIRECTOR-GENERAL OUTLINES FIVE
BUILDING BLOCKS OF PATIENT SAFETY
“The needless suffering of patients and their families is bad
enough. But each adverse event erodes the most precious resource in
health care, and that’s trust. When people aren’t sure whether it
is safe to seek care, they will cease to seek care,” said Dr.
Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health
Organization.
No one should be harmed while seeking care. But the reality is
that every year, millions of patients die or are injured because of
unsafe and poor quality health care. Two-thirds of all adverse
events occur in low- and middle-income countries. In his address,
Dr. Tedros outlined five building blocks for creating a patient
safety culture: strong leadership; clear policies; data-driven
improvements; competent and compassionate health professionals; and
people-centered care. Every instance of patient harm is a tragedy,
but it is a double-tragedy if we do not learn from it and take
steps to ensure the same thing never happens again.
For more information, please visit the Patient Safety Movement
Foundation website.
About Patient Safety Movement Foundation:
More than 200,000 U.S. patients and three million worldwide die
each year from preventable causes. The Patient Safety Movement
Foundation (PSMF) was established through the support of the Masimo
Foundation for Ethics, Innovation, and Competition in Healthcare to
reduce that number of preventable deaths to zero by 2020 (0X2020).
Improving patient safety requires a collaborative effort from all
stakeholders, including patients, healthcare providers, medical
technology companies, government, employers, and private payers.
The PSMF works with all stakeholders to address problems with
actionable solutions. The Foundation also convenes the World
Patient Safety, Science and Technology Summit bringing together
some of the world’s best minds for thought-provoking discussions
and new ideas that challenge the status quo. By presenting
specific, high-impact solutions to meet patient safety challenges,
called Actionable Patient Safety Solutions, encouraging medical
technology companies to share the data their products are purchased
for, and asking hospitals to make commitments to implement
Actionable Patient Safety Solutions, the Patient Safety Movement
Foundation is working toward zero preventable deaths by 2020. Visit
http://patientsafetymovement.org/.
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Patient Safety Movement FoundationTanya Lyon, (949)
351-2858tanya.lyon@patientsafetymovement.org