Recording of the UK G7 presidency patient safety meeting – 22 November 2021

Summary

Last November, the UK, under its G7 Presidency, convened an event on patient safety entitled Patient Safety: from Vision to Reality, co-sponsored with the World Health Organization (WHO). 

The event was designed to build upon recent prominent initiatives taken forward by the UK Government and partner Member States to demonstrate the importance of taking action and facilitating collaboration to advance patient safety as an urgent global priority. This includes:

• annual Global Ministerial Summits on Patient Safety (from 2016)
• a Resolution on Global Action on Patient Safety (adopted by the World Health Assembly in 2019); and,
• the Global Patient Safety Collaborative developed in 2018 by the UK Government in partnership with the WHO to support patient safety improvement in low- and middle-income countries.

Coupled with WHO’s Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030 and an annual World Patient Safety Day on 17th September, such initiatives will ensure that momentum can be maintained in order to tackle the truly global issue of patient safety within the wider context of strengthening national health systems.

The link below is a recording of the event.