World Patient Safety Day Goals - lunchtime session
Time slot
Tuesday 12 May 2026 - 12:30-13:30
Room
Hall 9
Session type
Workshop
About this session
12.30 - 12.40 World Patient Safety Day goals
12.40 - 12.50 The importance of the goals to families and children in the global context
12.50 - 13.20 The importance of listening to parents
- Goal 1 Engaging Parents and children
- Goal 2 Medication Safety - involving parents in medication safety
- Goal 3 Diagnostic safety to ensure parent's views are listened to
- Goal 4 infection (in terms of recognition of infection e.g.sepsis)
- Goal 5 Neonates (all of the above )
13.20 - 13.30 Questions
Speakers
- Dr Peter Lachman - Director of the PSMF Kiani Global Interprofessional Patient Safety Fellowship
- Mr Nikhil Prakash Gupta - Technical Officer, World Health Organisation (WHO)
- Helen Haskell - Founder & President, Mothers Against Medical Error
- Dr Ronny Cheung - Consultant Paediatrician, Evelina London
- Ellen Duke - Deputy Director, Children & Young People's Nursing at NHS England
- Heather Pritchard - Head of Patient Safety Improvement Programmes, NHS England