Patient Safety is a health care discipline that aims to prevent and reduce risks, errors, and harm that occur to patients during the provision of health care. Today, patient harm due to unsafe care is a large and growing global public health concern and is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Most of this patient harm is avoidable. The Global Patient Safety Action Plan strives to eliminate avoidable harm in health care with the goal to achieve the maximum possible reduction in unavoidable harm due to unsafe health care globally. There is a capacity gap among patients, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders in understanding and delivering safe healthcare. The aim of this course is to build capacities around the recently launched WHO Global Patient Safety Action plan 2021 – 2030 by providing an overview of each of the strategic pillars and thematic areas and providing ideas on how patients can engage in these processes at local and national levels. Based on self-paced learning, the course is meant for patients, patient advocates and patient led organisations.

Self-Placed

4-6 Hours