OVERVIEW
“To help Member States share best practices and find solutions to these and other common public health challenges, the European Commission has established the concept of Joint Actions”, articulates the Commission in its 2013 “EU support for key public health initiatives 2008-2011 Joint Actions” brochure.
In April 2013, the European Union Network for Patient Safety and Quality of Care, PaSQ Joint Action has entered into its second year, through coordination of Haute Autorité de Santé (French National Authority for Health), and activities led by Work Packages Leaders from Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Slovakia and Spain. |
This three-year project (2012-2015), on raising the bar of Patient Safety and Quality of Care through sharing of good practices across all European Member States, is co-funded and supported by the European Commission within the Public Health Programme.The main outcome of the Joint Action will be the consolidation of the permanent network for Patient Safety and Quality of Care in the European Union. The Commissioner for Health has announced the intention of the European Commission to support its sustainability after the PaSQ Joint Action. |
PARTNERS
Facing the same challenge of improving the Quality of Care in these recessionary times, and one year experience into this Project, has demonstrated the importance of having all involved gathered around this activity.
This has been achieved through the teamwork of PaSQ Partners, that is: Associated Partners, Collaborating Partners and PaSQ National Contact Points from 27 European Member States plus Norway and Croatia, as well as 11 European Stakeholders, and 4 International Organisations. In accordance with this approach, during the 2nd Coordination Meeting in Berlin (Germany) on January 14-15th 2013, the following |
set of Safe Clinical Practices for Patient Safety has been selected, further to literature review and the choice of PaSQ National Contact Points: WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, Medication Reconciliation, Multimodal intervention to increase hand hygiene compliance, and Paediatric Early Warning Scores.
PaSQ National Contact Points of the 16 participating European Member States have chosen among these Safe Clinical Practices for Patient Safety the most suitable ones for their national environment. Their implementation will take place starting on July 01st 2013, with funding and support from the PaSQ Joint Action. |
PROGRESS WITH WORK
In line with Project’s objective of contributing to Patient Safety and good Quality of Care, the respective PaSQ Work Packages have focused their activities in the last six months on the creation and launch of a series of online surveys, as well as literature review performed by experts, with the common goal to collect data on Good Healthcare Practices.
The crucial role in this work is played by the network of PaSQ National Contact Points in order to achieve the aim of this Joint |
Action: to share information, knowledge and implementation of good practices; and consequently, to make progress together.The second round of Data collection continues through Patient Safety Practices Exchange Survey – WP4, and Good Organisational Practices Exchange Survey – WP6. Should you be interested to share your good practice by filling in a survey, please contact your PaSQ National Contact Point and [email protected] |
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