MoPH to introduce national patient safety event reporting, learning system

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) is preparing to introduce a national patient safety event reporting system to capture, analyse, and...

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) is preparing to introduce a national patient safety event reporting system to capture, analyse, and learn from incidents that could potentially harm patients.

Lead of the National Patient Safety Programme at MoPH, Dr. Shimous Mohammad told The Peninsula that the goal of such a system is to improve safety and quality of care by identifying patterns, underlying causes, and areas needing improvement. A national incident and learning reporting system will capture patient safety concerns, hazards and/or incidents and is meant to trigger action, facilitate communication, response, learning and improvement.

“At the Ministry of Public Health, we are developing a national incident and learning reporting system that enables all healthcare organisations to report incidents that may affect patient safety. This system will allow for consistent reporting to the ministry on a national level,” said Dr. Mohammad.

“The national incident and learning reporting system will allow us to set our priorities and focus on where we want to implement our improvement initiatives to ensure safety and quality,” she added, speaking on the sidelines of the World Patient Safety Day activities held recently.

She said the national incident and learning reporting system in the first phase will be for health professionals, but in the coming phase it will be open for the public to report.