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About Us
Patients For Patient Safety Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to reducing avoidable patient harm and making healthcare safer, clearer, and more accountable.
We bring together lived experience, practical insight, and evidence to help patients and caregivers recognise risks, ask better questions, and make safer decisions. Through accessible resources, outreach, and collaboration across health systems, we work to ensure that safer care becomes the norm, not the exception.
Learn more about who we are, our mission, what we do, and the people and partnerships behind our work.
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Your Health Journey
Learn more about each stage of your health journey and access guidance to help you navigate care with clarity and confidence.
Learn moreEvery patient moves through a series of critical steps-from the first symptom to recovery-and risk can arise at any point along the way.
Patients For Patient Safety Foundation breaks this journey down into clear, practical stages so you know what to watch for, what to ask, and what to do at each step. By understanding your health journey, you can recognise early warning signs, avoid common gaps, and make safer decisions throughout your care.
Consultation & Diagnosis
Admission & Treatment
Lifestyle Changes
Medication Management
Discharge & Care at Home
Preventing Medical Harm
50% of all medical harm can be prevented if you engage yourself in your healthcare journey (WHO, 2020). Most medical harm is not random-it follows patterns that can be recognised and prevented. Patients For Patient Safety Foundation brings these together into clear areas of focus, helping you understand where risks occur, what signs to watch for, and how meaningful questions can make the difference between unsafe care and avoidable harm.
From medication mix-ups and missed diagnoses to infections, communication gaps, and unsafe transitions of care, risks often arise in predictable ways.
Learn moreMedication Errors
50% of Medical Harm is related to Medication error
Infections
upto 15% of hospitalized patients acquire infections during care
Diagnostic Errors
Diagnostic delays and missed signs can change outcomes
Surgery/Process Errors
Surgery and process gaps need clear checks at every step
Falls & Injuries
Falls and injuries can often be prevented with safer care
Communication Failures
Communication failures create avoidable risk during care
Discharge Errors
Nearly 3 in 10 patients face discharge-related issues
Follow Up Failures
Follow-up failures can leave warning signs unresolved
Safe Health Library
Safe Health LibraryFrom Awareness to Action Healthcare information is everywhere - but what's missing is what truly matters for staying safe.
Patients for Patient Safety Foundation brings together essential health knowledge across conditions, life stages, and care settings-organised so you can quickly find what is relevant, recognise risks early, and act with clarity.
Explore the Safe Health Library to access trusted, practical guidance across health topics and stages of care.
Learn moreDownloads
Practical tools can make the difference between confusion and clarity in moments that matter.
The Safe Health Library Downloads Section brings together free, ready-to-use resources-from checklists and infographics to videos, podcasts, and publications designed to support safer decisions at every stage of care.
Access free checklists, guides, and resources to support safer care whenever and wherever you need them.
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Infrequently Asked Questions - iFAQs
No one should have to say, 'If only I had asked.
In healthcare, the most important questions are often the ones that never get asked. Not because they don't matter-but because patients don't know they should.
Patients For Patient Safety Foundation brings these to the surface-questions that can uncover risks, clarify decisions, and prevent avoidable harm before it happens.
Learn moreOne of the very important inputs for a doctor in addition to your current symptoms is your past medical history and also the family history. When you approach a doctor, this record helps connect your current situation with previous illnesses, medicines, allergies, and family risks.
Show MoreList your symptoms, current medicines, allergies, reports, and the questions you want answered. Carry a trusted caregiver if you need help remembering details.
A discharge summary records diagnosis, treatment, medicines, warning signs, and follow-up instructions. It helps you continue care safely after leaving the hospital.
Keep walkways clear, improve lighting, use handrails, review medicines that cause dizziness, and ask for support when balance is uncertain.
Call local emergency services, keep the patient safe, avoid unverified remedies, and keep medical records and medicines ready for responders.
Read labels, confirm dose and timing, avoid mixing old prescriptions, and ask the doctor or pharmacist before changing or stopping any medicine.
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Safer healthcare is a shared effort and it begins with staying connected.
Through webinars, community engagement, media conversations, and open access to learning, Patients For Patient Safety Foundation creates opportunities for people to participate, learn, and contribute to safer care.
Whether you want to stay informed, attend an event, or engage more closely with our work, these are multiple ways to be part of this effort.
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