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20 September 2023 06:30
Patient safety is a paramount concern in healthcare systems worldwide. Empowering patients and their families to actively participate in the process of care and pharmacovigilance contributes significantly to reducing medical errors and adverse events. This webinar proposes an exploration of the crucial role patients and families play in enhancing patient engagement and pharmacovigilance, ultimately leading to improved patient safety and better healthcare outcomes.
Objectives of the webinar:
Raise awareness on patient safety amongst stakeholders. Help to understand the role of all stakeholders in medication safety. Strengthen awareness of the Global Patient Safety Action Plan, Strategic Objective 4: Patient & Family Engagement Engage and educate patients and families to become the patient advocates for patient safety. Intended audience: The intended audience includes patients, caregivers, patient advocates, patient-led organisations, civil society organisations and NGOs, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacists and pharmacies, HCPs, regulators etc.
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20 September 2023 09:30 11:00
Public Policy Projects is holding a roundtable "Improving access to genomic testing and medicine for better outcomes and reduced inequalities" on the 20th September from 10:30am to 12pm on Zoom.
This session will be chaired by Parker Moss, Chief Commercial & Partnerships Officer at Genomics England, and will seek to explore how genomic technologies can be better utilised, and how services can be appropriately coordinated, to ensure that emerging technology can be used as a tool for reducing inequalities and bettering the overall standard of care for cancer patients in the NHS.
The hosts are looking for individuals from Cancer Alliances, ICB, Genomic Laboratory Hubs, Cell Pathology Centres, and Clinical Diagnostic Centres to attend and share their experiences and views at this session.
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20 September 2023 12:00 13:00
Vaccine uptake in the UK is dropping, and we are failing to meet the WHO’s 95% coverage target. To help address this, we must understand people’s attitudes and experiences of vaccines, so we can grasp their concerns and better support them. Children’s attitudes are important too, because they must feel empowered to make health decisions.
RSPH research with Children and Young People (CYP) shows that they trust vaccines and think they are important to their health. However, trust varies by ethnicity, with results showing that 85% of white CYP trust vaccines, in comparison to 71% of Asian and 74% of black CYP.
Knowledge varies around which vaccines they think are available to them and they do not necessarily know which vaccines they can have. Whilst 61% of CYP understood how vaccines worked, they reported concerns about side effects (63%), safety (57%), whether they will hurt (55%) and the costs of accessing vaccines (16%).
These findings have practical implications for practitioners working with CYP and delivering vaccines. In this webinar, we will explore:
The impact of inequalities on access to vaccines and information about vaccinations. What challenges the public health workforce face in delivering vaccines. How the workforce – and others involved in vaccine delivery - can be supported to develop and deliver vaccines programmes Register for the webinar
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20 September 2023 15:00
World Patient Safety Day 2023 will be observed on 17 September under the theme “Engaging patients for patient safety", in recognition of the crucial role patients, families and caregivers play in the safety of health care. Evidence shows that when patients are treated as partners in their care, significant gains are made in safety, patient satisfaction and health outcomes. By becoming active members of the healthcare team, patients can contribute to the safety of their care and that of the health care system as a whole.
World Patient Safety Day serves as a reminder that patient safety is a shared responsibility, highlighting the profound impact of patient engagement in forging a safer and more compassionate healthcare landscape worldwide.
WPA is organising a webinar on patient engagement.
Join the webinar and learn from patient safety champions and leading patient advocates on "Patient Engagement in Patient Safety Around the World".
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