From plans to actions: closing the implementation gap for patient safety (29 April 2023)

Summary

On 23–24 February 2023, the 5th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety in Montreux, Switzerland, marked the first convening of global leaders to discuss patient safety for more than 3 years. The summit provided the opportunity to reimagine the way safe care is delivered using learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic. In this correspondence in the Lancet, Shaw et al. hopes we will look back at the Montreux summit as a turning point in patient safety: the catalyst for moving from plans to actions, so that at future summits we can discuss shared learning and evaluation of health systems that deliver safe care to all.