World Patient Safety Day Webinar: Engaging Patients for Medical Radiation Safety (18 Sep 2023)

Engaging Patients for Medical Radiation Safety

18 September 2023, 13:00 -14:30 (CEST)

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Co-organizers
: ICRP, IOMP, ISR, ISRRT, RAD-AID, WFNMB, WHO

Audience: professionals

WPSD 2023 Theme: “Engaging patients for patient safety”

Format: Panel discussions (no presentations in the sessions)

Chair: WHO representative

Panelists:

  • Bibb ALLEN (ISR)
  • Kimberley APPLEGATE (ICRP)
  • John DAMILAKIS (IOMP)
  • Guy FRIJA (ISR)
  • Donald FRUSH (ISR)
  • MAC GINTY (ISR)
  • Irena PAPIEVA (WHO)
  • Suz SCHRANDT (Patient representative)
  • Chek-Wee TAN (ISRRT)
  • Jean-Pierre TASU (ISR)
  • Mary WEATHERALL (RAD-AID)
  • TBC (WFNMB)


Objectives of World Patient Safety Day 2023

  • Raise global awareness of the need for active engagement of patients and their families and caregivers in all settings and at all levels of health care to improve patient safety.
  • Engage policy-makers, health care leaders, health and care workers, patients’ organizations, civil society and other stakeholders in efforts to engage patients and families in the policies and practices for safe health care.
  • Empower patients and families to be actively involved in their own health care and in the improvement of safety of health care.
  • Advocate urgent action on patient and family engagement, aligned with the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030, to be taken by all partners.


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