MoPH to mark Qatar Patient Safety Week

MoPH to mark Qatar Patient Safety Week

The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), in co-operation with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC), and health facilities and health educational institutions in Qatar, celebrates Qatar Patient Safety Week under the theme ‘Medication Without Harm’ from September 17-22 in conjunction with World Patient Safety Day, which falls on September 17.

Qatar Patient Safety Week 2022, which will address the topic of ‘Medication Safety’, aims to improve the culture of patients' safety in healthcare institutions by engaging healthcare leaders and urging them to focus on the issue of developing and improving healthcare policies and regulations and patients' safety. It also aims to encourage communication, education, and awareness of patients safety among healthcare leaders, providers, and patients, especially about medication safety, sharing the best practices and methodologies to raise performance levels to improve patients' safety, strengthening partnerships between the public and private sectors to develop appropriate responses and solutions to patients' safety problems in the healthcare system, create channels of communication between healthcare providers and patients to build a safer healthcare system by engaging patients and taking their opinions and establish a culture based on learning from any medical errors.

The MOPH along with its partners will launch an