Patient safety

Patients for Patient Safety

Using Patient Stories to Drive Change - join the online discussion

From 24 October 2011 for two weeks, Margaret Murphy, External Lead of Patients for Patient Safety, will lead an online discussion forum on "From Anecdote to Action: Using Patient Stories to Drive Change". This forum is part of the Patient-Centred Care online community of the new International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) Knowledge portal. Mrs Murphy will be joined by the convenor of the Patient-Centred Care community, Karen Luxford.

We invite you to join this interesting discussion and help shape the future of patient-centred care.

Patients for Patient Safety (PFPS) emphasizes the central role patients and consumers can play in efforts to improve the quality and safety of health care around the world. PFPS works with a global network of patients, consumers, caregivers, and consumer organizations to support patient involvement in patient safety programmes, both within countries and in the global programmes of WHO Patient Safety. The ultimate purpose is to improve health-care safety in all health-care settings throughout the world by involving consumers and patients as partners.

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New WHO Patient Safety tool for mothers and babies

The Patients for Patient Safety team of WHO Patient Safety, in collaboration with WHO Reproductive Health Research, is creating a patient-held safety tool that will help increase safety for mothers and their newborn babies during the first seven days after birth, considered a high-risk period. Being developed ‘by patients, for patients’ this simple and easy-to-use tool will contain safety checks for common danger signs for mothers and their babies.

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    Patients for Patient Safety has been developed to be a collective voice for patients and consumers who are concerned about patient safety issues
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  • PFPS Champions and Collaborative Organizations
    Without the dedicated support and energy of the countless patient representatives who participate in its work, Patients for Patient Safety (PFPS) would not have been able to succeed in the way it has.
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