Search Tag: safety culture

2025 08 Apr

  Patient safety has become a global concern in modern healthcare systems, particularly as adverse events persist across healthcare settings, from primary care to hospital-based services. A significant proportion of these events are preventable and tied to systemic issues rather than isolated errors. In this context, assessing patient safety ac1Read more

2025 19 Jan

  Healthcare incident management begins with the crucial steps of awareness and reporting. Delays in recognising and documenting incidents can lead to repeated issues, sometimes with severe consequences for patient safety and operational efficiency. Prompt awareness and reporting are fundamental for identifying root causes and implementing corr1Read more

2023 30 Aug

Instituting patient safety practices will save lives and healthcare dollars. We are proud of our healthcare experts; it is the system that needs to be fixed, and we can do that! We can create a system where safe, high-quality healthcare is delivered to every patient every time. Healthcare must become a high-reliability organisation, and this sta1Read more

2021 23 Apr

A new study looks into prevalent determinants of psychological well-being in healthcare workers based on survey data collected in three countries.   You might also like: A nurse looks back: what has happened to the profession over the last 12 months? Learn more   Already a crisis in pre-pandemic times, burnout, anxiety a1Read more

2018 21 Aug

How the Patient Safety Movement is striving for zero preventable deaths by 2020 A patient death is distressing enough, but when the cause is a lack of hospital safety culture and it could have been prevented, healthcare needs to act. Now. A health crisis across the globe is claiming over 4.8 million lives every year. It’s devastati1Read more

2017 12 Sep

Creating a culture of safety within an organisation will have more chance of being successful when its leadership is totally involved. This has been shown by the experiences of Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston and the Seattle-based Virginia Mason Health System. Clinical representation on the board of directors is critical for a health sy1Read more

2015 26 Jan

The biggest obstacle to healthcare safety is culture, said Mark Chassin, President and CEO The Joint Commission. Speaking today at the 8th Middle East Quality Management in Healthcare conference at Arab Health, Dr. Chassin outlined the reasons why a culture of safety is the key to sustaining high performance. Safety culture is about enabling a cu1Read more