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AfiHQSA, a Pan-African institute focused on equipping frontline healthcare
workers and health institutions to improve the quality of care outcomes is organizing a two-day healthcare quality and safety summit in Accra.
The Summit which started on Monday, June 17, 2019, and ends on Tuesday, June 18, 2019, will bring together national and international thought leaders on quality and patient safety.
According to the organizers, it will stimulate discussions and offer useful and implementable recommendations that will enable the necessary transformation of healthcare quality and safety into the future.
“This summit believes that it is about time everybody in healthcare comes to the realization that, they have two jobs: to work and to improve it.”
This year's summit is being organized in collaboration with the International Society for Quality in Health, ISQua on the theme ‘Transforming & Navigating Healthcare Quality & Safety into the Future’.
Background
Quality in healthcare is treating our patients the way we would want to be treated and achieving care outcomes that we would want for ourselves if the roles were turned around.
There have been three (3) global publications, in 2018, that have revealed the sub-optimal nature of quality of care and patient safety globally but significantly in lower-middle-income countries (LMIC).
The significant increase in the efforts and investments in the health sector has not resulted in a proportional increase in the quality of care outcomes.
Many countries are yet to heed to the call of redesigning their health systems to make quality and patient safety the primary goal of service delivery.
Efforts towards Universal Health Coverage will not be meaningful without ensuring that the care and care outcomes desired are of the highest quality.
Country health systems and the global health community must take a break and consider how the principles and concepts of quality and patient safety can be embedded and operationalized at all levels of healthcare!
