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Patients for Patient Safety (PFPS) is a World Health Organisation flagship Initiative, “A Decade of Patient Safety 2021-2030” that engages and empowers patients and families and facilitates their partnership with health professionals and policy-makers to make health care services safer worldwide.
Goals of PFPS;
- Engage and empower patients, families and communities to play an active role in their own care.
- Bring the voices of patients and people to the forefront of health care;
- This program aims to incorporate the patient, family, and community voice into all levels of health care through engagement and empowerment.
The goal is to advocate and facilitate:
- Patients taking ownership of their care;
- Bringing the voices of patients and people to the forefront of health care;
- Patient, family, and community partnerships with health professionals (health-care providers, policy-makers, researchers).
Objectives of World Patient Safety Day 2023
- Raise global awareness of the need for active engagement of patients and their families and caregivers in all settings and at all levels of health care to improve patient safety.
- Engage policy-makers, health care leaders, health and care workers, patients’ organizations, civil society and other stakeholders in efforts to engage patients and families in the policies and practices for safe health care.
- Empower patients and families to be actively involved in their own health care and in the improvement of safety of health care.
- Advocate urgent action on patient and family engagement, aligned with the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030, to be taken by all partners.