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15 September 2024 17 September 2024
Patients for Patient Safety WPSD 2024 SummitJoin Patients for Patient Safety US for 3 days of events centred around World Patient Safety Day (WPSD) 2024.
PFPS US urges Americans impacted by missed or delayed diagnoses, bias or medical error to convene in Washington, DC for a Summit held September 15-17, 2024. The World Health Organization designates 17 September 17 as World Patient Safety Day, and WPSD 2024’s theme is Improving Diagnosis for Patient Safety.
Find the full Summit event list at https://www.pfps.us/wpsd-2024, including:
Sunday 15 September: Welcome reception and dinner at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center to launch Project PIVOT, a national project identifying patient-prioritized outcomes and experiences and collaboration with patient organizations, US Department of Health and Human Services, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard Medical School and others.
Monday 16 September: Participants visit Capitol Hill to urge Congressional leaders to ACT Now for patient safety, diagnostic safety and health equity solutions. ACT Now is PFPS US’s urgent request to leaders for Accountability, Coordination, and Transparency in health care. Later, PFPS US and AcademyHealth co-host a film premiere of The Pitch: The Next Generation of Patient Safety. From immersive tech to AI machine learning, innovations are finally making waves in medicine with the goal of safer health care. The Pitch gives a unique look at the American health care system’s ongoing challenge to embrace the next generation of patient safety.
Tuesday 17 September, World Patient Safety Day: The March for Patient Safety begins at Freedom Plaza and ends with a ceremony on the US Capitol Lawn, where marchers will remember those whose lives have been lost to or impacted by preventable harm. Afterwards, PFPS US and the Bloomberg Center co-host a World Patient Safety Day Leadership Briefing with government leaders.
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16 September 2024
Supporting healthier lives – the shift towards preventionThere is currently remarkable consensus across think tanks, institutions, and political parties that a move towards a preventive state is key to creating a healthier nation.
A preventive approach can help people live healthily for longer while also addressing many of the problems within the health and care system, allowing for proactive population health management and tackling of health inequalities.
Creating a healthier nation needs a collaboration between people, places, the NHS, and businesses, as well as government. If the new government is committed to improve the health of the nation, it should create an approach to health that spans all government departments, includes actions to reduce health inequalities, and implements measures that help people to make healthier choices.
At this King's Fund in-person event, we make the case for how prevention can create a healthier nation, why it is particularly important now, and propose tangible actions for making this shift at the national, system and local levels. Join us to understand why prevention is key to supporting healthier lives and how it can be made a reality.
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16 September 2024 23:00
Webinar on improving diagnosis for patient safety in medical imagingRecognising the critical importance of correct and timely diagnoses in ensuring patient safety, “Improving diagnosis for patient safety” has been selected as the theme for World Patient Safety Day 2024. This is especially relevant when it comes to medical imaging and radiation safety where an understanding of benefits and risks is an important aspect.
Through the slogan “Get it right, make it safe!”, WHO calls for concerted efforts to significantly reduce diagnostic errors through multifaceted interventions rooted in system thinking, human factors and active engagement of patients, their families, health workers and their leaders. These interventions include but are not limited to ascertaining complete patient history, undertaking thorough clinical examination, improving access to diagnostic examinations, implementing methods to measure and learn from errors, and adopting technology-based solutions.
The webinar aims to raise global awareness of errors in diagnosis contributing to patient harm and emphasize the pivotal role of correct, timely and safe diagnosis in improving patient safety. It will bring together NGOs in official relations with WHO involved in radiation safety and medical imaging. Furthermore, the WHA76.5 resolution on Strengthening Diagnostics Capacity that calls for safe use of diagnostic imaging procedures, and the IAEA’s perspective on quality in medical imaging to prevent errors and ensure patient safety will be presented.
The panelists will discuss their strategies for improving diagnosis for patient safety and how their organizations can foster collaboration with policymakers, health care leaders, health workers, patients, and other stakeholders in advancing correct, timely and safe diagnosis.
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Welcoming remarks – Emilie van Deventer (WHO) / DG recorded message WHO’s World Patient Safety Day – Ayda Taha (WHO) Patient testimony – Steve Ebdon-Jackson WHO resolution on strengthening diagnostics capacity: Committing to safe imaging procedures – Adriana Velazquez Berumen (WHO) The IAEA’s perspective in enhancing Patient Safety in medical imaging: The power of quality to prevent diagnostic errors – Virginia Tsapaki (IAEA) Panel discussion: What is the role of NGOs in improving medical radiological diagnosis to enhance patient safety? Conclusion and closing remarks – Ferid Shannoun (WHO) Register
