It is with great pleasure, and a great deal of hope, that I look towards the 5th Global Ministerial Patient Safety Summit 2023 in Montreux, Switzerland, which is due to begin in a few hours.
More than five years ago, two patient safety words changed my life.
I wanted to share some thoughts with you .
“I know that in the face of millions of human losses, this handful of people saved does not amount to much, but one must not reason in this way.Every life saved and every tear spared has its value” The story of One life Ludwik Hirszfeld
It is difficult for me today not to think of the patients, doctors, nurses and every human being who suffers because of the war. There, on the Dnister River, in the small village of Czajkowice, my dad was born. It was from there that he had to flee to save his life in 1944, just as hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing today to save their lives.
1.First message
Please think about changing the term Patient Safety to Safety in Healthcare.
2.Second message
Please consider creating a WORLD PATIENT SAFETY EPICENTRE Safety ,People Solutions – Network&Center(s) of Safety in Healthcare Change
3.Third message
Please invite two people to the discussion (I know it’s late, but maybe it’s possible) : Niall Downey and Ken Catchople.
4.One challenge
Let’s save 155 patients by 17 September 2023 in each country.
Patient Safety is Saving Lives.
5.Annexes
5.1.After analyzing dozens of #PatientSafety definitions around the world,analyzing dozens of articl. about safety as one of the six dimensions of quality.I come to the conclusion of abandoning the use of the term #PatientSafety and replacing it with #SafetyinHealthcare
Am I crazy?
Please note that the term patient safety may be misleading, as the name refers to the patient and patient safety is dependent on the safety of health professionals, the design of the health system. I am not just talking about the formal but, in my opinion, necessary change of terms from Patient Safety to Safety in Healthcare .It is about the fundamental change that Bob Wears, Kathleen Suctliffe wrote about in their book Still Not Safe
What Exactly Is Patient Safety?
5.2 WORLD PATIENT SAFETY EPICENTRE Safety ,People Solutions – Network&Center(s) of Safety in Healthcare Change
Multidisciplinary centres for safety and quality improvement: learning from climate change science Charles Vincent , Paul Batalden , Frank Davidoff
“Abstract
Effective improvement and research rely on sustained multidisciplinary collaboration, but few examples are available of centres with the broad range of disciplines and practical experience that are needed to sustain long-term improvement in healthcare quality and safety. In a number of respects, the parlous state of the quality and safety of medical care resembles the problem of climate change. Both constitute a profoundly serious man-made threat to the public good which have until recently been both ignored and denied but are increasingly being recognised, taken seriously and acted on. Among the most interesting and important responses to the challenge of climate change has been the creation of Centres of Climate Change in which experts from multiple diverse disciplines are brought together to tackle the problem”
5.3 Niall Downey @nialldowney is the pilot whose hands, head and heart are responsible for the life and safety of the passengers on the aircraft he is piloting. Niall has a background in medicine as a surgeon. He is a huge advocate of applying the lessons of aviation safety to healthcare in a meaningful way.
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Ken Catchpole @KenCatchpole
“Dr Ken Catchpole is a cognitive scientist and human factors practitioner who seeks to understand and improve human performance in complex systems. After leading a nationwide project developing human abilities in weapon detection at UK airports, he began research in healthcare in 2003 at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, examining the mechanisms of teamwork and safety in surgery. He now works with clinicians to develop and scientifically evaluate interventions to improve performance, while taking a semi-ethnographic approach to understanding the complex nature of safety, quality and human error in healthcare”
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-catchpole-18068b3/
“With leadership everything is possible and without it nothing is possible” Paul O’Neil
“Buddy, we don’t know what to do . So let’s go to the library to look for a solution”
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