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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       
Health service delivery, management, patient safety, QI, EDI, prescribing and technology Included for virtual delegates