Our recent survey on workplace safety and health (WSH) in the healthcare sector found: There is heightened awareness of WSH in the healthcare sector, but barriers to reporting workplace incidents and hazards remain a challenge. Fear of punitive actions and heavy workload are the main reasons healthcare employees are not reporting WSH incidents and hazards.
Near miss reporting plays a crucial role in ensuring patient safety within healthcare settings. It allows healthcare professionals to identify
Unsafe medication practices and medication errors are one of the leading causes of injury and preventable harm in healthcare systems across the world.
Patient engagement is increasingly recognized as an integral part of healthcare and a critical component of safe people-centered services.
Transitions of care is the patient’s movement from one hospital to another or home during which there is greater chance of medication errors.
Medicines can provide many benefits in treating and preventing health problems. However, at times polypharmacy can be inappropriate. For example, people may still be taking medicines that are not working or no longer needed.
To deliver safer and better care, healthcare providers will need to adopt proactive risk management, system-wide thinking, process digitalisation, effective data monitoring and a culture of continuous improvements.
We will be discussing strategies to reduce medication errors in high-risk situations in this blog. In the context of medication safety, high-risk situations relate to those circumstances associated with a significant risk of medication-related harm, such as situations arising from LASA and high-alert medications.
QUASR joins the WPSD 2022 campaign to promote awareness and urge all stakeholders to address medication safety as a priority in patient safety across all levels of healthcare.
Why does this survey matter to you? Incident investigation and RCA is a subject of deep interest and serious concern
