Theme for this year’s World Patient Safety Day is “Engaging patients for patient safety“. Patients and Families are responsible for giving right disease and treatment history to the healthcare provider. They are responsible for the post discharge care of the patient especially for timely and right medicine administration, patient hygiene, patient rehabilitation and follow ups. Indiscriminate use of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance is another issue which can be dealt with only by awareness of patients and their families. Patient is a very good source of feedback regarding health care service and is a great source of quality improvement and safe patient care. So it is of paramount importance and need of the hour that patients and families to be involved in the policy making to reduce the gap in knowledge, policy, design and delivery of healthcare.

SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS

• Importance of engaging Patients for Patient Safety
• Antibiotic Stewardship for Patient Safety
• Role of Clinical Audits in Patient Safety
• Importance of Communication in Ensuring Patient Safety
• Patient Safety Culture
• Surgical Safety
• Medical Ethics