Patient safety in Japan: a brief history (5 February 2025)

Summary

Professor Shin Ushiro is Executive Board Member at the Japan Council for Quality Health Care (JQ) and Deputy Director and Professor of Patient Safety at Kyushu University Hospital. In this guest blog for HSSIB, Professor Ushiro gives a brief overview of the history of patient safety in Japan, looks at similarities with other countries and outlines the work of the International Patient Safety Organisations Network.