Patient safety is an integral part of the quality agenda. While the Institute of Medicine in 1999 described safety as the absence of clinical error, either by commission (unintentionally doing the wrong thing) or omission (unintentionally not doing the right thing), and error as the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim, WHO defines safety as the reduction of risk of unnecessary harm to an acceptable minimum.
No policy, technological innovation or financial investment will significantly improve the quality of care and patient safety without qualified healthcare professionals and other professionals involved in healthcare delivery (Joint statement of the 2017 HPP thematic network on medical training and professional development for patient safety).
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