Ministry of Health (Spain): National Health System Patient Safety Strategy 2025-2035

Summary

This strategy sets out Spain's strategic framework for strengthening patient safety over the next decade, promoting safer healthcare systems, fostering a culture of safety, and advancing patient-centred care across all levels of the health system.

Content

Strategic lines of action

The strategy its shaped around seven strategic lines of action:

Strategic line of action 1: Safety culture, human and organizational factors and training

• General objective 1.1. Improve the National Health System safety culture in all areas and at all levels

• General objective 1.2. Encourage health professionals to take the lead on patient safety

• General objective 1.3. Training

Strategic line of action 2: Safe clinical practice

• General objective 2.1. Promote medication safety

• General objective 2.2. Promote safe practices for preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections

• General objective 2.3. Promote the implementation of safe surgical practices

• General objective 2.4. Promote the implementation of safe practices in patient care

• General objective 2.5. Promote the correct identifcation of patients, samples and clinical documents

• General objective 2.6. Promote communication among professionals and between professionals and patients

• General objective 2.7. Promote the design and development of strategies for dealing with serious adverse events at healthcare facilities

• General objective 2.8. Promote the safe use of ionizing radiation in medical-radiological procedures and ensure that comprehensive quality assurance programmes are implemented pursuant to legislation

• General objective 2.9. Promote the abandonment of low-value practices through the implementation of do-not-do recommendations

Strategic line of action 3: Risk management and systems for reporting and learning from incidents

• General objective 3.1. Promote risk management at healthcare facilities

• General objective 3.2. Promote the implementation and development of systems for reporting and learning from healthcare-related incidents

Strategic line of action 4: Participation of patients, families and the broader public in patient safety

• General objective 4.1. Promote the participation of patients and their caregivers in patient safety

Strategic line of action 5: Research and innovation in the field of patient safety

• General objective 5.1. Foster greater knowledge about preventing healthcare-associated harm Strategic line of action

6: National and international participation

• General objective 6.1. Foster international collaboration on patient safety

• General objective 6.2. Promote national collaboration on patient safety

Strategic line of action 7: Patient safety in all areas of care

• General objective 7.1. Guarantee patient safety in all areas

Different versions

The English language version of the Strategy can be found here.

The Spanish language version of the Strategy can be found here.