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Imagining the future Featured
By ISQua | Jul. 4, 2019 |
This is the second of three blogs on my travels to Latin America in late May – early June. The visit to the enchanting city of Cartagena in Colombia, for the Regional ISQua conference, was illuminating.
Data transparency – first step towards quality and safety in health for large and small health services alike
By Dr Shirin Anil | Jul. 1, 2019 |
Data collection, timely analysis and reporting back to the health sector in a transparent manner is fundamental to improving quality and safety and to identify system failures when it occurs.
Engaging in Brazil Featured
By ISQua | Jun. 28, 2019 |
This is the first of three blogs on my travels to Latin America in late May – early June.
My visit to Latin America started in Sao Paulo, where I presented at ACSC, and the CBEX Symposium, followed by sessions at CISS 2019 (International Congress of Health Services) and the IBES event, which were both part of the 2019 Hospitalar Fair (International Trade Fair).
Physicians’ Working Style Reform Featured
By Shin Ushiro, ISQua Board Member | Jun. 21, 2019 |
Incumbent Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his cabinet members launched in 2016 several audacious policies to boost Japan’s economy, which has been suffering economically for more than two decades. Surprisingly, it turned out that one of these policies was closely related to me i.e. “Working Style Reform” included “Physician”.
Ten additional perspectives about health services accreditation
By ISQua/IEEA | Jun. 13, 2019 |
We congratulate the Deeble Institute and the authors, Mr Ryan Swiers and Dr Rebecca Haddock, on the recent publication of the evidence brief (#18) titled “Assessing the value of accreditation to health systems and organisations”. As a group of professionals committed to the contribution of accreditation to quality improvement in healthcare, this brief is one of value and raises some key issues.
Update from the seventy-second session of the World Health Assembly (20 - 28 May 2019) Featured
By Bruno Lucet, ISQua Board Member | Jun. 7, 2019 |
The seventy-second session of the World Health Assembly took place in Geneva from 20th to 28th May 2019.
Many public health topics were on the agenda of this assembly and, according to the closing remarks of Doctor Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s Director-General, the most outstanding achievements of this assembly are the following:
What matters to you? The global movement and the patient’s voice Featured
By Isabela Castro, ISQua Fellow | Jun. 6, 2019 |
ISQua Fellow and one of our 2018 ISQua/AGPAL Interns, Isabela Castro, has shared her thoughts on the 'What Matters to You?' movement. 6th June is the 'What Matters to You? day, which aims to encourage and support more meaningful conversations between people who provide health and social care and the people, families and carers who receive health and social care.
Warming up for Cape Town 2019 Featured
By Jacqui Stewart, ISQua Board Member & CEO of COHSASA | Jun. 5, 2019 |
We are using every opportunity to publicise and promote the ISQua Conference 2019 in Cape Town. I had the privilege of chairing the Quality Management Conference at the Africa Health Congress in Johannesburg on 29 and 30 May. Both COHSASA and ISQua partnered with Informa for the conference, so there was lots of publicity for ISQua, Cape Town 2019. The theme was ‘Public or private health care – quality is everyone’s business.
Improvement Culture vs Compliance Culture in Healthcare Featured
By BK Rana, ISQua Board Member | May. 30, 2019 |
In the last 10 years, a lot has happened around the world as far as healthcare quality and patient safety is concerned.
This includes efforts from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the epitome of healthcare-related enterprise, to Ministries of Health, and down to single-doctor clinics.
These efforts cover the most developed nations as well as least developed. Huge praise should be given to leaders at all levels for driving the agenda.
Safety-II – the changed paradigm of patient safety Featured
By Jeffrey Braithwaite, ISQua Board Member | Apr. 12, 2019 |
In recent years momentum has been building around a relatively new idea in patient safety which has come to be called Safety-II. Previously, to produce safe care for patients, the majority of activities involved looking at when things go wrong and attempting to reduce harm.
ISQua President Update Featured
By Wendy Nicklin, ISQua President | Apr. 5, 2019 |
Myself, and several members of the ISQua Board (Shin Ushiro, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Cliff Hughes, David Vaughan and Steve Clark, via video link) had the privilege of speaking and chairing sessions at the Quality in Healthcare Summit held on Friday, 22nd March in Dublin, organized by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and supported by ISQua. Over 150 registrants attended including clinicians and other healthcare leaders from Dublin and the surrounding area.
Aiming for Zero
By ISQua | Jan. 31, 2019 |