Global action on patient safety

Global action on patient safety
Agenda Item 13. 1
The InternationalAlliance of Patients’ Organizations, the InternationalPharmaceuticalFederation,
the InternationalHospitalFederation, the World MedicalAssociation, theInternationalFederation
of PharmaceuticalManufacturers andAssociations andall the other member organizations of the
Fight the Fakes Alliance, welcomeand endorse the decision made by the 148th Session of the
ExecutiveBoard on 21 January2021 to recommend that the 74thWorld HealthAssembly consider
and adopt the WHO Flagship Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030.
To build back better and ensure wehave people-centred accessible, acceptable, affordable, and
quality healthcare systems anduniversal health coverage, we first must ensure patient safetyacross
the whole healthcarespectrum from health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and
palliative careacross thelife course.
We concur with the Executive Boardand the Director-Generaland urge the Member States to
incorporate theSix Guiding Principles and engagethe patients, their families, and carers inco-
creating safecare. It is particularly important that we instil a patient safetyculture in the designand
delivery of universal health coverage2030. Safe carefosters trust in health systems, health
professionals and medical products, trust that can be undermined by products and interventions
that do not adhere tothe highest standards of quality, suchas substandardand falsified medicines.
After having witnessedfragmentedresponses topatient and health professionalsafety during the
COVID-19Pandemic, it is now important that the WHO Flagship Global Patient Safety Action Plan
2021-2030 be implement in closecollaboration withall stakeholders. Global patient safetyaction in
UHC 2030 must be a whole of government, whole of society, whole of industry and the whole of the
patient community collaboration. We must not leave any one out or behind.
The global action on patient safetymust be evidence based, putting researchintopatient safety
practice, and patient safetypracticeand learnings back into research. Useof scientificexpertiseand
patient experience must drive patient safetypolicies and actions that are appropriatefor each care
setting.
We urge theWHA adopt this Resolution.