Patient safety reporting and learning system of Catalonia (SNiSP Cat): a health policy initiative to enhance culture, leadership and professional engagement (7 August 2024)

Summary

Patient safety reporting and learning systems (PSRLS) are tools to promote patient safety culture in healthcare organisations (HCO). Many PRSLS are locally developed. WHO Global Action Plan on Patient Safety 2021–2030 urges governments to deploy policies for healthcare risk management including PSRLS. The Ministry of Health of Catalonia (MHC) faced challenges in addressing quality and patient safety issues due to disparate information systems. To address these challenges, the MHC developed a territorial PSRLS and embedded it in the Quality and Patient Safety Strategic Plan of Catalonia 2023–2027.