{"id":12073,"global_id":"hope.be?id=12073","global_id_lineage":["hope.be?id=12073"],"author":"5","status":"publish","date":"2020-06-26 15:44:23","date_utc":"2020-06-26 13:44:23","modified":"2021-04-21 12:05:55","modified_utc":"2021-04-21 10:05:55","url":"https:\/\/hope.be\/event\/quality-and-safety-network-webinar-development-of-regional-strategy-for-patient-safety-improvement\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/hope.be\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/12073","title":"Quality and Safety Network Webinar: Development of Regional Strategy for Patient Safety improvement","description":"

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This Quality and Safety Network<\/span><\/a> <\/strong>webinar was organised by HOPE and PAQS asbl on 6 October. It described the developments of a Regional Strategy for Patient safety improvement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This was the fifth webinar of the Quality & Safety network\u2019s\u00a0series. It covered the development of a Regional Strategy for Patient Safety Improvement in Belgium. Denis Herbaux, CEO of PAQS started by giving an overview healthcare in Belgium to then present a regional quality and safety strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Denis Herbaux started the webinar by reminding that PAQS aims to promote, support and organise the development and implementation of initiatives of continuous quality of care and patient safety improvement in Brussels and Walloon healthcare institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then he set the Belgian context reminding that there are two level of powers: federal and federated and three community based on languages as well as three regions based on geographical location. There is no primacy between the federal and the federated level: some competencies are managed at federal and other at federated level.<\/span><\/p>\n

This creates complexity for healthcare to be managed. Indeed, Belgian hospitals are mostly financed by the federal level but regional authorities are responsible to define and apply norms and regulations for hospitals. Belgium had implemented patient safety plans for the period 2007-2017, but there were stopped and replaced by \u2018pay for performance\u2019 quality schemes at the federal level.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the framework of the development of a Regional Strategy, PAQS carried a survey on 13 healthcare providers and 2 patients safety experts to look at:<\/span><\/p>\n