Patient safety: what do we need to do to improve the health system?

Last week the Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI), located at Macquarie University in Sydney, took the helm of Croakey’s rotated, curated Twitter account, @WePublicHealth, to discuss #PatientSafety.

See the post below for some of the key issues raised, including globally via the #PatientSafety #VirtualConference hosted by the International Society for Quality in Health Care and marking #WorldPatientSafetyDay. Related links are provided at the bottom of the post to articles, videos and other resources.

This week the Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention (CBPATSISP) is on deck at @WePublicHealth, including to mark World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD), on 10 September.

#PatientSafety

Related reading links:

• An opportunity to contribute to @WHO public consultation for review of draft Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030.
• The moral determinants of health
• The Empowered Patient Podcast
• AIHI – Prof Jeffrey Braithwaite Webinar 18 June 2020
• Gaps in epilepsy care uncovered
• Macquarie University AI expert appointed to world-first global forum
• Errors in administration of medicine
• Strategies for improving patient safety
• What happens when surgical tools are left inside a patient