Patient Safety is the prevention of errors and adverse effects to patients associated with healthcare. In an ideal world, no patients are harmed during healthcare. Yet, it is estimated that 1 over 10 patients is harmed during hospital admission1
30-70% of patient safety events are preventable1
15% of hospital expenditure and activity in OECD countries can be attributed to treating safety failures1
Litigation cost 2% of the NHS budget in England2
At BD, we partner with regional patient safety associations to empower individuals to share these stories in our joint fight for better patient care.
Beyond patient harm and associated cost, patient safety events impact the hospital image and reputation and staff efficiency.
The challenges lie in sustaining a culture of safety, in the implementation of evidence-based practice interventions and in communication and collaboration across departments.
Increased compliance to guidelines and standardised practices can help you decrease HAIs.
An integrated stewardship model with a holistic approach based on antimicrobial, infection prevention and diagnostic can help you fight antimicrobial resistance.
The complete implementation of a sepsis bundle can help you lower the risk of mortality associated with sepsis by 31%.
Standardisation medication processes, full traceability, automation and closed-loop medication management can help you prevent medication errors.
"Human error is inevitable... It's at the system level where we have to prevent harm to the patient"
(Liam Donaldson, WHO World Health Alliance for Patient Safety)
With a unique portfolio of products and services and capabilities, BD supports you in: sustaining a culture of safety, preventing patient safety events across the entire patient journey, implementing safe, innovative, and optimized technology to improve patient safety, ensuring healthcare workers safety, reaching the metrics that reflects meaningful outcomes.
BD supports you in healthcare-associated infection prevention and treatment management
BD supports your sepsis diagnosis and treatment management
BD supports you in implementing antimicrobial stewardship programmes
BD supports you in reducing errors from diagnostics to drug administration
BD supports change and continuous quality improvement
How integrated diagnostics will play a key role in the future
Now we are so used to track-and-trace and data being readily available, it is hard to imagine a time when diagnostics were less well known. Read here about the work BD has done and will do and how a patient’s journey will benefit.
How Point of Care Testing will form part of everyday life through this COVID-19 response and beyond
Patient Safety is an evident theme running through the response to the pandemic. Read here how BD wants to be part of the change which will come.
BD highlights importance of enduring partnership between HealthTech and government
Working in the HealthTech and MedTech space puts BD in the right place to highlight to the government how Patient Safety can be considered.
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