The 2022 edition of Patient Safety Week takes place from November 21 to 25 on the theme "Adverse events associated with healthcare (AEAS): report them, manage them to make progress".
The aim of this national awareness-raising event is to encourage dialogue between users, patients and healthcare professionals on this crucial subject. To mark the occasion, the Centre François Baclesse is organizing a number of initiatives to raise awareness among professionals and patients alike.
Actions for patients and users :
The Center communicates with patients, via social networks and in hospital wards, to raise their awareness and encourage them to take action to ensure the safety of their care in hospital, through 4 key messages.
At the hospital, I have an essential role to play in my care:
- I'll bring all the documents I need to create my file and verify my identity,
- I alert you to my allergies, my history, my symptoms...,
- I warn you / I report if I notice an error on my identity, on my medication, on an oversight of hand hygiene...,
- I participate in the sharing of information about myself, by asking questions about my care, by taking part in decisions related to my care...
During this week, members of the Centre François Baclesse's Identity Vigilance Unit will be meeting patients at the facility to discusstheir identities. The aim is to raise patients' awareness of ways of avoiding identity errors, and to encourage them to take responsibility for their own security.
Actions for professionals :
The Centre François Baclesse has decided to take part in the EIAS Challenge proposed by Unicancer, which takes up the Challenge "Ensemble, agissons pour la sécurité des patients" ("Together, let's act for patient safety") run by FORAP and the Qual'Va quality network in Normandy. The aim is to encourage professionals to report and analyze EIAS.
Teams taking part in the challenge undertake to analyze an adverse event associated with care that has occurred in the facility. The best analyses will be rewarded and published, as they provide a wealth of information for all healthcare professionals.
The CLCCs (Centres de Lutte contre le Cancer) have also decided to test the knowledge and skills of their professionals in the management of adverse events associated with care, by asking them to complete an online questionnaire. The results of this questionnaire will be shared and compared between the CLCCs, enabling us to assess the level of maturity of professionals in this approach, which contributes to making care safer.
Finally, every month, starting with Patient Safety Week, the Centre François Baclesse has decided to distribute the Haute Autorité de Santé's "Flash Sécurité Patient" to professionals. This document, based on annual reports of serious adverse events reported to the Regional Health Agencies by healthcare establishments, aims to draw attention to and raise awareness of recurring risk situations.
