All News: African Partnerships for Patient Safety

African Partnerships for Patient Safety (APPS) has today launched the second wave of Europe-to-Africa hospital partnerships to improve patient safety in five countries. APPS proposes a unique partnership model translating policy into action to improve patient safety in hospitals in the African region. Hospitals in Africa are teamed up with counterparts in Europe to allow the sharing of tools, processes and learning based on three core objectives: partnership strength, hospital patient safety improvements, and patient safety spread. Building on the success of the "first wave" of partnerships established by APPS in 2009, new partnerships between hospitals in Africa and the UK are being launched in a "second wave". Representatives of the five partnerships between UK and African hospitals (in Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia) met at WHO Headquarters this week to kick off their new partnerships and to establish work plans to improve patient safety in their respective hospitals and further afield.

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