Patient safety is an important component of the quality of care framework that ensures safer health service delivery to the patients and minimizes risk. Creating a patient safety culture practice within the health settings is a prime need for each health care set ups. Leaders are to guide and develop such culture in accordance with the patient’s comfort. It’s crucial to develop
national patient safety standards, trace happenings on unsafe care practices or adverse events and develop interventions that reduce these events.
Patient safety is an integral part of quality of care and includes initiatives designed to reduce medical errors thus making healthcare safer. Patient safety is also an important indicator of quality of services. Furthermore good patient safety will enable management to avoid preventable deaths, unnecessary injuries. The objective is to raise awareness on patient safety, establish national patient safety standards, system of monitoring and documenting unsafe events and introducing interventions to continuously reduce the incidence of such events during the plan period.
