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Why should you apply for the 2020 Lucian Leape Patient Safety Fellowship? Featured
By Sinead McArdle | Feb. 17, 2020 |
Applications for the 2020 Lucian Leape Patient Safety Fellowship are now being accepted. We asked our 2019 recipient, Dr Subhrojyoti Bhowmick, to share his opinion of the Fellowship, and the value he has gained from it.
Looking to the future of healthcare provision and the facilitation of health Featured
By ISQua | Jan. 30, 2020 |
As we look to the future, the healthcare industry is at a critical juncture. The rapid development of theories on how to deliver safe, person-centred care means that we can no longer rely on the excuse that “healthcare is different” from other industries and cannot be reliable and safe. People are now demanding safety and reliability in the care they receive, and they want to be treated as people who happen to be ill rather than as a number or a disease.
ISQua Podcast Series - Episode 4 - Humanizing Quality with Hugh MacLeod Featured
By Hugh MacLeod | Jan. 22, 2020 |
We were delighted to host author Hugh MacLeod for our fourth episode in the ISQua Podcast series.
The topic for this episode was: “Humanizing Quality and Patient Safety Improvement”
Join ISQua in Florence, Italy for #ISQua2020 Featured
By Sinead McArdle | Jan. 16, 2020 |
We invite healthcare professionals, students, patients, policymakers to share their ideas, successes and achievements at ISQua’s 37th International Healthcare Conference in Florence, Italy from 30th August to 2nd September 2020. Submit by 30th January 2020 for a chance to present in Florence.
ISQua Board members, ISQua Academy and Experts members reached out across the globe in 2019 Featured
By ISQua | Jan. 10, 2020 |
The Mission of ISQua is "to inspire and empower people to advocate for and facilitate health and improvements, in the quality and safety of healthcare worldwide. Our vision is to transform health, and the quality and safety of healthcare, through global communities."
We achieve this by providing KNOWLEDGE building our NETWORK and giving you a VOICE
Over the past year, ISQua has extended its presence in all the regions of the WHO. I want to thank ISQua’s Officers, Board members, Academy Members and ISQua Experts for helping to spread ISQua vision.
Blog Highlights from 2019 Featured
By ISQua | Dec. 19, 2019 |
As we get close to the end of 2019 and begin a brand-new decade in 2020, we’ve looked back at the posts we’ve shared over the past year and collated the Top 10 Most Popular:
Are you tired of counting how many times something goes wrong?
By ISQua | Dec. 17, 2019 |
The ethos of safety has always been to reduce unwanted and harmful events or even better, to completely eliminate them. Even though it makes sense to try to stop things from going wrong, this is clearly not enough.
5th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety Confirmed Featured
By ISQua | Dec. 17, 2019 |
Patient safety is a public health priority and a globally shared challenge, thus international cooperation is crucial. One of the most significant advances in this area to date is the recent adoption of the resolution "Global Action on Patient Safety" by the World Health Assembly, which enabled the first-ever World Patient Safety Day this past September. In recent years, the Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety has become one of the central platforms for improving patient safety worldwide. It represents an effective tool for facilitating collaboration between countries and stakeholders alike.
Leading a Culture of Safety
By Andrea Christoff | Dec. 4, 2019 |
As a quality and safety champion within my organization, I am the clinical lead for an initiative to improve the safety culture within our critical care department. Creating psychological safety within a team empowers staff to speak up and promotes the delivery of safer care to patients.
From designing for patients to coproducing with people Featured
By ISQua | Nov. 26, 2019 |
The last month has been pretty busy for me as the ISQua conference took place in Cape Town. This affords me the opportunity to reflect on the key lessons that came out of the conference that may apply to the Irish Healthcare system. There is more than enough for more than one article so I probably will use the concepts over a few, writes Dr. Pater Lachman.
3 PILLARS OF SUSTAINABLE QUALITY AND PATIENT SAFETY IMPROVEMENT
By Hugh MacLeod | Nov. 21, 2019 |
In my second blog post on 10 September 2019 I talked about three quality and patient safety improvement leadership truths; reflection fuels, people matter, and relationships make the difference.
Today I talk about what leaders can do with the three leadership truths to sustain quality and patient safety improvement. Many healthcare organizations find that identifying changes is relatively easy.
My Health 2022 - transformation of the health system in France
By Bruno Lucet, ISQua Board Member | Sep. 10, 2019 |
In France, as in many other countries in the world, care needs and approaches have considerably changed over the past number of years – ageing of the population, increase in chronic diseases, inequalities in access to care, changing expectations of health professionals, availability of new therapies, digital development, and many more...
An in-depth transformation of the health system has therefore proved indispensable and the French government has embarked on a reform program entitled "My Health 2022".