World Patient Safety Day (September 17)

What is World Patient Safety Day?

In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) Member States endorsed the establishment of World Patient Safety Day (WPSD), to take place annually on September 17. The primary objective of WPSD is to enhance the understanding of patient safety on a global scale. This significant day encourages patients, families, health care workers, health care leaders, and policy makers to work collaboratively towards co-designing health care policies and safety interventions that truly reflect the needs and preferences of patients and families.

WPSD 2025

Recognizing the vulnerability of the newborn and paediatric populations when it comes to risks and harm caused by unsafe care, this year’s WPSD is dedicated to the theme of Safe Care for Every Newborn and Every Child. Specifically, WPSD 2025 aims to:

  1. Raise global awareness of safety risks in paediatric and newborn care in all health care settings, emphasizing the specific needs of children, families and caregivers.
  2. Mobilize governments, health care organizations, professional bodies and civil society to implement sustainable strategies for safer care for newborns and children, as part of broader patient safety and quality initiatives.
  3. Empower parents, caregivers and children in patient safety by promoting education, awareness and active participation in care.
  4. Advocate for strengthening research on patient safety in paediatric and newborn care.

By shining the spotlight on the significance of safe care for every newborn and child, this is helping to build trust and promoting the delivery of high quality care.

Webinar – Paediatric Pain Management

The Health Standards Organization (HSO) released the first national health standard for Paediatric Pain Management, which recognizes preventable, untreated, and unmanaged pain as a patient safety incident. Foundational to the principles of the standard are four transformative goals:

  1. Make pain matter
  2. Make pain understood
  3. Make pain visible
  4. Make pain better

Interested in learning more about paediatric pain management?

Register for the webinar below through the following link: Webinar Registration – Zoom

Webinar description: Explore how integrated, people-centred strategies can transform pediatric pain management across sectors and care teams. Look at new ways to manage pain for children, combining pharmacological and other approaches, with a strong emphasis on family involvement and co-design to ensure pain management is equitable and individualized. 

Children deserve equitable, consistent, and safe standards of care—right from the start.