Event: Webinar: ‘Medication Without Harm: Fostering Medication Safety in Hospitals’
Date: 13 September 2022
Time: 12:30 – 13.30 BST | 13:30 – 14.30 CEST
Venue: Online event via Zoom
Professor Sandra C. Buttigieg, President of the European Health Management Association and Head will be one of four panelists in a Webinar Panel Discussion ‘Medication Without Harm: Fostering Medication Safety in Hospitals’.
This year, in recognition and support of the WHO’s Annual World Patient Safety Day, the European Health Management Association (EHMA) and the International Alliance of Patient Organisations (IAPO) have joined forces to host the one-hour webinar to raise awareness of medication safety in hospitals.
World Patient Safety Day, observed annually on 17 September 2022, 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%.
The event will raise awareness of the benefits of medication safety for all healthcare stakeholders in hospital environments with reference to the four domains highlighted in the WHO’s Global Patient Safety Challenge - patients and the public, health care professionals, medicines and systems and practices of medication. It will discuss the advantages of effective medication management and what strategies and tools are required to reduce medication-related harm in the key action areas: polypharmacy, high-risk situations, and transitions of care, identified by the WHO as part of the Global patient safety challenge within hospital settings.
