“I am delighted that Joe Kiani and the Patient Safety Movement Foundation have accepted our invitation and are giving London the opportunity to hold this important Summit next year,” said Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health for England. “An international effort from leading countries will mean we can expand this movement to every corner of the world. Together, we can successfully promote a culture of intelligent transparency and learning that will lead to significant advances in patient safety worldwide.”
“We are honored to be invited by Secretary Hunt to hold our annual World Summit in London next year,” said Joe Kiani, Founder of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. “Achieving zero preventable patient deaths is a global concern that can only be solved through an international sharing of data, technology, policies, procedures, and resources. Secretary Hunt is doing tangible work in patient safety on behalf of the UK’s National Health Service and last year played an integral role in co-convening the first Patient Safety Global Action Summit in London. I look forward to deepening and expanding our collaboration as we work toward protecting all patients from unnecessary harm and death.”
About the Patient Safety Movement Foundation
More than 200,000 people die every year in U.S. hospitals and 3 million worldwide in ways that could have been prevented. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation was established through the support of the Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation, and Competition in Healthcare to reduce that number of preventable deaths to 0 by 2020 (0X2020). Improving patient safety will require a collaborative effort from all stakeholders, including patients, healthcare providers, medical technology companies, government, employers, and private payers. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation works with all stakeholders to address the problems with actionable solutions for patient safety. The Foundation also convenes the World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. The Summit brings together some of the world’s best minds for thought-provoking discussions and new ideas to challenge the status quo. By presenting specific, high-impact solutions to meet patient safety challenges, called Actionable Patient Safety Solutions, encouraging medical technology companies to share the data their products are purchased for, and asking hospitals to make commitments to implement Actionable Patient Safety Solutions, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation is working toward zero preventable deaths by 2020. Visit http://patientsafetymovement.org/.
@0X2020 #patientsafety #0X2020