Webinar | Medication Without Harm: Fostering Medication Safety in Hospitals
World Patient Safety Day, observed annually on 17th September, aims to raise global awareness about patient safety and calls for solidarity and united action by all countries and international partners to reduce harm to patients. 'Medication Safety' is the theme for World Patient Safety Day 2022, which reaffirms the objectives of the WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm launched in 2017 to reduce severe avoidable medication-related harm by 50%.
On the webinar
This year, in recognition and support of the WHO’s World Patient Safety Day 2022, the European Health Management Association (EHMA) and the International Alliance of Patient Organisations (IAPO) have joined forces to host a one-hour webinar to raise awareness of medication safety in hospitals.
Many of us will need hospital care requiring medication which is frequently a critical element for recovery, symptom and disease management or stabilisation; however, with 1 person per million dying daily from a medication error risk to a patient’s health and wellbeing must be managed.
In this webinar will learn how patient harm from medication can occur if medication is incorrectly stored, prescribed, dispensed, administered or if monitored insufficiently. Attendees will hear from patient representatives and hospitals managers on how harm to patients from medication can be reduced through empower patients and implementing shared responsibility, innovative tools and cultures of safety.
Speakers
- Dr Andras Sule, President of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists
- Prof. Sandra Buttigieg, President of the European Health Management Association
- Mr Kawaldip Sehmi, Chief Executive Officer of the International Alliance of Patient Organisations
- Ms Muriel Schneider, Program Director of the Global Self-Care Federation
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