Welcome to the website for African Partnerships for Patient Safety (APPS) - a WHO Patient Safety initiative. It forms part of the WHO response to the increasing commitment and momentum for action on patient safety across Africa. It is a bidirectional initiative involving hospitals in Africa and Europe ensuring patient safety receives prominence within healthcare.
APPS launches series of Patient Safety Improvement tools Working with frontline health-care professionals from partnership hospitals, APPS has co-developed a series of tools to support patient safety improvement across the African setting. These tools now provide a mechanism to bring about change in the safety of health-care provision in hospitals across the region.
Hospital Partnerships There are now 14 African countries and their European partners committed to improving the safety of health care through hospital to hospital partnership.
Implementation Patient Safety improvements are now being implemented across the APPS partnership countries through a series of activities to make care safer for their patients.
First priorities: Health care-associated infections APPS initially focuses on the prevention of infection in hospitals. Through advocating the need for simple measures such as soap and water and alcohol-based handrub in health care which are essential for clean hands, APPS supports the implementation of low cost, high impact interventions.
Events APPS has run a series of workshops for successive waves of APPS Hospital Partnerships. These provided the opportunity for partners to come together to identify needs, select priorities and undertake planning. Events also include APPS advocacy days within partnership hospitals to launch implementation, raise awareness of the project and increase knowledge of patient safety issues.
Our vision Working towards safe health care in every country of Africa through sustainable partnerships, catalyzing improvements in patient safety through the use of partnerships and facilitating the spread of patient safety improvements across and between countries.
