In order to understand the significance of patient safety and the challenges encountered by the Physicians, the Health Ministry is all set to launch a uniform strategic patient safety framework in the entire country. Patient safety has been recognised as one of the crucial components of quality of care and many initiatives have been taking place to address this diverse issue. Although the laws, regulations and strategies on the quality of care regarding patient safety do exist in the country, however, they are largely uneven.
In Indian scenario, the physicians struggle through different challenges in patient safety. As a result, there is a requisite to improve and amalgamate the policies. In this perspective, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India (GoI) has constituted a multi-stakeholder Patient Safety Expert Group task to operationalize patient safety…
