WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety

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WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety

• Patients for Patient Safety

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• Patients for Patient Safety
• - To ensure perspective and viewpoint of
  patients, families and health care consumers from
  all corners of the globe is infused in the work
  of all six strands of the World Alliance.

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Patients for Patient Safety Why?

• More to offer than simply the victims story of
  tragic medical error.
• Consumers offer the richest resource of
  information related to medical errors
• Patients want to know the truth when things go
  wrong and be treated with honesty and openness
  rather than face a closed door of denial

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Results for the WHO in including Patients Voices

• Safety will be improved if patients are included
  as full partners in reform initiatives, and
  learning can be used to inform systemic quality
  and safety improvements.
• By contributing the patient voice, experience and
  perspective, patients will ensure that the work
  of the World Alliance for Patient Safety is
  authentically patient-centred through out all the
  areas of Alliance work including, research,
  reporting, solutions and the specific global
  challenge

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Patients for Patient Safety Development

• Guided by an informal Steering Group
• Patient Champions were selected through an
  international Call for applications
• Patient Champions were selected from around the
  world, from developing, developed and
  transitional countries

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Patients for Patient Safety First Workshop

• Held in the UK in November 2005 in conjunction
  with the UK Governments EU Summit on Patient
  Safety
• Brought together 21 patient champions from 19
  countries
• The Patient Champions developed a collective
  vision that expresses the deeper aspirations the
  group shared
• Exposure to experts in patient safety both as
  part of the larger EU Summit and in the more
  intimate setting with the workshop
• EU Summit Delegates were exposed to the
  perspective of a global team of Patients all
  committed and passionate about forming a
  partnership to bring about change aiming to
  reduce harm from medical error.

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Workshop Goals and Achievements

• Goals were to
• Form an understanding of patient safety failures
  that account for the complex system of factors
  involved
• Form the foundation for an authentically
  patient-centred home for Patients for Patient
  Safety Initiative
• Determine the next steps for Patients for Patient
  Safety
• Achievements
• Formation of a Global Patient Voice
• London Declaration

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Patients for Patient Safety London Declaration

• We, Patients for Patient Safety, pledge to help
  create a world in which health care errors harm
  fewer people. We, gathered in London from 27-30
  November 2005 to join together in partnership in
  an effort to reduce the massive burden of
  avoidable harm in health care. Risk and
  uncertainty are constant companions. So we come
  together in dialogue, participating in care with
  providers. We unite our strength as advocates
  for care with less harm in the developing as well
  as the developed world.
• We are committed to spreading the word from
  person to person, town to town, country to
  country. There is a right to safe health care
  and we will not let the current culture of error
  and denial continue. We call for honesty,
  openness and transparency. We will make the
  reduction of health-care errors a basic human
  right that protects human life around the world.
• We, Patients for Patient Safety, will be the
  voice of all patients, but especially of those
  who are now unheard. Together, as partners, we
  will collaborate in
• Devising and promoting programmes for patient
  safety and patient empowerment.
• Developing and driving a constructive dialogue
  with all partners concerned with patient safety.
• Establishing systems for reporting and dealing
  with health-care harm on a worldwide basis.
• Defining best practices that deal with
  health-care harm of all kinds and promote those
  practices throughout the world.
• In honor of those who have died, those who have
  been left disabled and our loved ones today, we
  will strive for excellence, so that all people
  receiving health care are as safe as possible, as
  soon as possible. This is our pledge of
  partnership.
• January 17, 2006

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Patients for Patient Safety The Champions
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Patients for Patient Safety Core Values

• COLLECTIVE
• OPENESS
• HONESTY
• PARTNERSHIP
• EMPOWERMENT
• REDUCTION IN HARM DUE TO MEDICAL ERROR

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Patients for Patient Safety The Future

• Work with and integrate patient involvement into
  all work strands of the World Alliance
• Regional Workshops in at least 6 regions during
  2006/07
• Intense support to areas of greatest challenge
• Advocacy and networking on a national and
  regional basis

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Patients for Patient Safety How

• Advocacy and Communication Support
• WHO Regional Office Support to Champions
• Regional Workshops build patient networks
• Participation in other strand areas
• Targeted resources for Champions
• Collect stories of experience of champions and
  others
• Review challenges of particular countries to feed
  into development of further support
• Promotional Materials to help raise awareness

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Return on Investment

• We identify, organize and orient like-minded
  consumer patient safety champions who
  collectively embrace a common foundation of
  values. We develop a shared mental model of
  partnership and consistent messages. Together we
  provide the worlds largest geographically and
  culturally diverse pool of patient wisdom on
  patient safety, ensuring authenticity and
  sustainability for the WAPS. This will
  ultimately save lives and prevent injuries.

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• Make no little plans they have no magic to stir
  mens blood
• Daniel H. Burnam, Director of Works
• Worlds Columbian Exposition, 1893