(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), a global initiative of Qatar Foundation (QF), in partnership with Imperial College London, has announced its fourth event in the Leading Health Systems Network's (LHSN) Safer Care Webinar Series: The Road to Safer Care: The Challenge for Health Systems.
Taking place tomorrow, the webinar will focus on the key challenges facing health systems trying to provide safe, high quality patient care. The featured speaker is Professor Sir Liam Donaldson (pictured), the World Health Organization's (WHO) Envoy for Patient Safety and Chairman of the Independent Monitoring for the Polio Eradication Programme. In the UK, he is Chair of Health Policy at Imperial College London and Chancellor of Newcastle University. He has produced landmark reports which have set health policy and legislation across multiple healthcare fields.
Sir Liam said, 'Over the last decade, patient safety has become a priority for all health systems around the world. Yet, healthcare still struggles to match the year-on-year improvements achieved in other high-risk industries. In healthcare, declaring a goal of zero serious avoidable harm brings out the cynics. In other industries, it motivates and inspires. A growing patient safety movement is striving to break the status quo.'
WISH launched the LHSN Safer Care Accelerator Programme to share best practice and inspire health systems worldwide to provide safer care for patients. The year-long programme will bring together a global network of healthcare organisations to exchange insights, experiences, and data on the topic of patient safety, culminating in the publication of a global report. So far, 18 organisations spanning six continents have joined the effort, including Hamad Medical Corporation and Sidra Medical and Research Center from Qatar.
Dr Hanan Al Kuwari, Managing Director of Hamad Medical Corporation, said, 'At Hamad Medical Corporation, our patients are at the heart of everything we do - we aim to deliver the safest, most effective and most compassionate care to every one of them. In order to do that we know we must continue to evolve and innovate. Global initiatives like WISH and the LHSN Safer Care Accelerator enable us to share innovations in patient safety and best practice in healthcare. This is of great value because it brings together the best minds from around the world with a common goal " creating better healthcare, globally.'
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