Luanda - Angola and the strategic partners of the World Health Organisation (WHO) have renewed, during the 5th global ministerial summit, in Montreux (Switzerland), the commitment on patient safety 2023.
According to a press release issued Friday, in Luanda the participants of the event, which took place on February 23 and 24, agreed on the need for more efforts to ensure that all patients receive appropriate, safe and high quality care.
The 5th Ministerial global Summit of Montreux 2023, discussed patient safety in different technical domains through a broad public health policy perspective.
At the meeting, emphasis was placed on patient safety in the context of COVID-19, highlighting successful and sustainable implementation efforts undertaken in different settings and countries, as well as presenting best practices and reflecting success stories.
The note adds that the global action plan for patient safety represents WHO´s medium-term strategic vision, as it understands that harm to patients from unsafe care is currently a major and growing global public health challenge, and is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide.
The aim of the action plan is to provide strategic guidance to all stakeholders in eliminating avoidable harm in healthcare and improving patient safety, across different domains of practice, through policy action on safety and quality of health services.
The report adds that it provides a framework for countries to develop their respective national action plans on patient safety, as well as align existing strategic tools to improve patient safety across clinical and health-related programmes.
In May 2021, the 74th World Health Assembly (WHA) approved decision WHA74 (13) to adopt the first global patient safety action plan 2021-2030 “eliminating preventable harm in health care” as the global roadmap for patient safety over the next 10 years.
This decision of the World Health Assembly obligates WHO to report on progress in implementing the action plan to the assembly in 2023 and every two years thereafter until 2031.
WHO also understands that, most of the time, patient harm is preventable.
As countries strive to achieve universal health coverage and the sustainable development goals (SDGs), the beneficial effects of improved access to health services may be undermined by insecurity of care.
Background
The seventy-second world health assembly in 2019 adopted resolution WHA72.6 on global action for patient safety and recommended the development of a global action plan for patient safety.
This global action plan was adopted by the seventy-fourth world health assembly in 2021, with a vision of “a world in which no one is harmed in health care and all patients receive safe and respectful care, always, everywhere”.
The aim of the action plan is to provide strategic guidance for all stakeholders in eliminating avoidable harm in healthcare and improving patient safety in different domains of practice through policy actions on health service safety and quality, as well as for the implementation of recommendations at the point of care.
Since it was created in 2016, the global ministerial summits on patient safety have succeeded in raising awareness as well as creating and sustaining the momentum of the global patient safety movement, as evidenced by the adoption of the WHA resolution (WHA72.6) “Global Action on Patient Safety” in May 2019, which enabled the first World Patient Safety Day in September 2019.
WHO considers that one of the main challenges facing patient safety today is to ensure the appropriate and sustainable implementation of adequate concepts and proper approaches that are crucial to the success of the WHA resolution.
The 5th global ministerial summit was attended by more than 600 experts, about 80 ministerial delegations and some 30 health ministers from around the world, including the Chairman of the Swiss Confederation, Alain Berset and the Director-General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The Angolan delegation was headed by the secretary of State for Public Health, Carlos Alberto Pinto de Sousa, representing the minister of Health.
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