{"id":5587,"date":"2022-10-25T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiamd.com\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:06:52","slug":"how-do-hospitals-and-clinics-ensure-patient-and-medication-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiamd.bqubetech.com\/id\/2022\/10\/25\/how-do-hospitals-and-clinics-ensure-patient-and-medication-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"How do hospitals and clinics ensure patient and medication safety?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Patient safety is of utmost importance. Good patient outcome is dependent on the premise of patient safety protocols embedded within our operations. We are glad that our patients and partners recognise our consistent outcome with their continued patronage.<\/p>\n


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\nHo Kuen Loon
\nGCEO of Fullerton Health<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Patient safety is a non-negotiable item in healthcare delivery system. All healthcare institutions are subjected to operate within the Ministry of Health (MOH)<\/span><\/a> healthcare system. Singapore\u2019s healthcare system requires patient safety and risk management activities as part of the licensing and re-licensing terms. In the spirit of World Patient Safety Day 2022: Medication without Harm<\/span><\/a>, we interviewed four distinguished and exemplary healthcare institutions in Singapore about Patient Safety culture, specifically About the Doctordication safety, in their place \u2013 SingHealth<\/span><\/a><\/span>, Farrer Park Hospital<\/span><\/a> (FPH), Fullerton Health<\/span><\/a>, and Mount Alvernia Hospital<\/span><\/a> (MAH).<\/p>\n

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All healthcare institutions which held high standard of quality care develop and implement patient safety culture. At Farrer Park Hospital<\/span><\/a> (FPH), the Hospital Medical Board is responsible to drive quality improvement and risk management activities with multiple subcommittees as part of the clinical quality assurance framework. At Fullerton Health<\/span><\/a>, the key departments involved in ensuring patient safety would be Clinical Quality Governance, Operations and Service Quality. In 2017, the SingHealth<\/span><\/a> Duke-NUS Institute for Patient Safety & Quality (IPSQ) was established to integrate resources to eliminate preventable harm and improve patient experience and outcomes by building and cultivating a strong patient safety culture. Mount Alvernia Hospital<\/span><\/a> (MAH) inculcates a culture of safety through various frameworks, such as the Quality Assurance Framework (QAF), the Incident Management Framework (IMF), and the Pathway of Innovative (PII) framework.<\/p>\n

What do hospitals and clinics do to monitor and evaluate patient safety?\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

There are programs which are developed in-house to build a safer healthcare system, such as patient safety training, audits and assessments of safety incidents, patient safety dashboards and patient safety challenges and awards. Promoting open, transparent, and non-blaming culture in the hospital is one of the main strategies.<\/p>\n

SingHealth<\/a><\/span> developed TeamSPEAK\u2122 and THRIVE Programme which aims to promote psychological safety to enhance speaking up culture and foster joy\/well-being at work, respectively. Farrer Park Hospital<\/span><\/a> encourages staffs to log in safety incidents into the hospital occurrence reporting system and convene root cause analysis, with the goal to take corrective actions and risk reduction strategies with continued monitoring and evaluation. Mount Alvernia Hospital<\/span><\/a> initiates Quality Innovators (QI) training and Patient Safety Leadership Walkabouts (PSLW) to provide support and suggestions on their current QI projects, and organises annual Quality Day event.<\/p>\n

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Patient safety is our top priority and a non-negotiable item! It is our Farrer Park Hospital\u2019s (FPH) commitment to reduce risks and prevent harm from reaching patients through a culture of continuous improvement that must be firmly rooted. We promise to embrace quality and patient safety wholeheartedly through the commitment of lifelong education for all healthcare professionals. It all starts with me and my peers.. believing in it, drives our organization\u2019s behavior in transforming FPH into a safe environment for patient care.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nDr Timothy Low
\nCEO Farrer Park Hospital<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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What are the indicators for patient safety in the hospital?\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

To objectively measure and evaluate quality health care and patient safety practice, the hospitals set several indicators which align with the International Patient Safety Goals<\/span><\/a> (IPSG), such as:<\/p>\n