Looking for lighthouse ideas to improve patient safety
25.08.2021 13:10
Healthcare facilities are invited to submit their outstanding ideas for improving patient safety to the German Patient Safety Award by November 7, 2021. Whether new surgical techniques, apps and accessories or improved process flows with innovative tools - it is often relatively small changes that can help to avoid errors in the doctor's office, in outpatient or inpatient care or in everyday clinical practice and to increase the safety of medical treatment . The Patient Safety Action Alliance is looking for these ideas in order to award the best with the prestigious prize.
The first three places will be awarded at the German Patient Safety Award. The most impressive entries are worth 10,000 euros for 1st place, 6,000 euros for 2nd place and 3,500 euros for 3rd place. The price is associated with media attention within the healthcare sector. This also includes a specialist media reporting on the award winners. The official award ceremony will take place in spring 2022. Anyone interested can find all information and conditions at https://www.aps-ev.de/dpfp/.
For the ninth time, the Aktionsbündnis Patient Safety eV (APS) is organizing the German Prize for Patient Safety together with its cooperation partners - Ecclesia Versicherungsdienst GmbH, MSD Sharp & Dohme GmbH, the Thieme Group and, since this year, Inworks GmbH. The APS has already awarded 29 lighthouse ideas in recent years that are intended to promote and improve patient safety.
A jury evaluates the submissions and selects the winners. Peggy Ahl (pharmacist, consultant for quality assurance in the pharmaceutical division, ABDA - Federal Association of German Pharmacists Associations), Dr. Franziska Diel (Head of the Quality of Care Department, editor and co-author of the QEP works, KBV - National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians), Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dieter Ludwig (Chairman of the Drug Commission of the German Medical Association (AkdÄ)), Martin Meilwes, authorized signatory of the GRB Society for Risk-Beratung mbH, Birgit Pätzmann-Sietas, member of the executive board of the German Nursing Council, Dr. Klaus Schlüter (Medical Director of MSD SHARP & DOHME GMBH, Germany), Univ.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Doris Spies (Director of the Clinic for Anesthesiology with a focus on surgical intensive care medicine at the Charité© Campus Mitte and Campus Virchow Klinikum), Prof. Dr. Christoph Straub (chairman of the board of BARMER), Markus Tannheimer (management of Inworks GmbH) and a member of BAG Selbsthilfe make up the jury.
“Getting to know the development teams, looking at their work and then recognizing the commitment of the most convincing ones with a prize – that is a real highlight every year and fills us with pride. Our goal is that the innovations can also be used in other institutions and provide inspiration. “They are beacons of patient safety,” explains Dr. Ruth Hecker, chairwoman of the APS and chairwoman of the prize jury. “Participation has recently increased again, which leads us to conclude that patient safety is becoming increasingly important.”
This year, projects that relate to overcoming the corona crisis and the promotion and use of digital technologies are expressly desired. However, thematic specialization is not a must.
About the Patient Safety Action Alliance (APS):
Representatives of the health professions, their associations, patient organizations as well as from industry and business have joined the Patient Safety Action Alliance. V. (APS) came together to build a common platform to improve patient safety in Germany. Together they decide and support the association's projects and initiatives.
The Patient Safety Action Alliance e. V. (APS) was founded in April 2005 as a non-profit organization. It is committed to safe healthcare and is dedicated to researching, developing and disseminating suitable methods.
You can find more information at www.aps-ev.de