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Reference group

REFERENCE GROUP FOR THE MAPPING EXERCISE PATIENT SAFETY

A multi-disciplinary reference group, which acts to help formulate the detail of what would be useful to collect and the best way of going about it.

Reference group members are a mixture of individuals with differing perspectives on patient safety and from different European countries. They include care managers, doctors, lawyers, (chief) executives in specialist healthcare quality organisations, safety managers in healthcare and industry, policymakers, scientists, etcetera.

The purpose of the reference group is to help ensure that the research addresses the right issues and asks the right questions. They have been helping to formulate the project, having first met in Luxembourg in April 2005. They are of ongoing help in providing advice and assistance as the mapping programme progresses.

BELGIUM

Agnes Jacquerye
Professor & Head of Centre of Excellence for ICT of the Belgium School of Public Health


"Now is the time to invest in the art of effective organisation and communication in order to enhance highly-developed and sophisticated medicine and surgery."

BELGIUM

Flora Giorgio
Secretary General of the PGEU - Pharmaceutical Group of the EU


DENMARK

Marianne Sørensen
Deputy CEO, MS, and Chief Executive of the Health Policy Department , Danish Medical Association


FINLAND

Päivi Hämäläinen
STAKES, National R&D Centre for Welfare and Health Specialist of Public Health and General Practice


"Every person involved in the care process is responsible for patient safety. Patient safety comes from fitting together thousands of small parts of each care process. One loose screw grounds an airplane and it does not fly before the screw has been tightened. Does this happen in health care today?"

FRANCE

Charles Bruneau
Chief Executive de l'Haute Autorité de Santé



FRANCE

Anne Broyart
Physician MD, Ministry in the Direction des Hôpitaux et de l'Offre de Soins (DHOS)



FRANCE

Elisabeth Rousseau
Physician MD. Ministry in the Direction Générale de la Santé (DGS)



IRELAND

David Somekh
President ESQH - European Society for Quality in Healthcare me


"Patient safety is an important consideration for all aspects of healthcare quality."

LITHUNIA

Palmira Morkuniene
Lead Medical Auditor of the Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Klinikos Centre Branch


"Measures and activities to make health care with minimum risk for patients and reduce harm associated with health care services"

LUXEMBOURG

Michel Nathan
Chief Executive de l'Hospital Esch-sur-Alzette


"We need to abandon the illusions of perfection and the culture of blame that haunt healthcare; instead we should be striving towards the creation, analysis and improvement of foolproof systems. Only then can we consider and correct the inescapable human condition that is error."


LUXEMBOURG

Serge Pechon
Coordinateur Qualité Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg



LUXEMBOURG

Susan Michel
Head of Health Economics Research of the Centre de Recherche Public - Santé



NETHERLANDS

Bastien van der Hoeff
Risk manager in the Academical Hospital Maastricht


Safety is together with effectiveness, the most important aspect of the quality of care. Let’s go for it!

NETHERLANDS

Peter Waanders
Consultant Patient Safety Waanders Process Consulting (WPC)


Patient Safety: go for it and it will be fun.

NETHERLANDS


Cordula Wagner
Senior Researcher NIVEL, Dutch Institute for Health Services Research


"Patient safety is a part of a well developed quality policy strategy"

POLAND

Basia Kutryba
Polish Society for Quality in Healthcare / ESQH & Common Health Market, Board member & Secretary of the Board


"The Polish journey towards the development of patient safety in healthcare environment started in April 2002 in Krakow with „Quality in Healthcare” / Prof. John Helfrick and goes on now in 2005 with participation in SIMPATIE. We will continue!."

PORTUGAL

Suzana Parente
Anaesthetist, Intensivist, Portuguese Society of Anaesthesiology



SERBIA

Viktorija Cucic
ESQH Contact ESQH, Professor


"This is about everything that we are doing in health system. Reducing the risk of our “activities “is our professional and ethical responsibility including the risk of bad communications with patients and clients."

UNITED KINGDOM

Brian Capsticks
Senior Partner, Lawyer Capsticks (Healthcare Law Firm)


"Progress in patient safety is likely to be achieved most effectively by the integration of standards with lessons learned from incident reporting."

UNITED KINGDOM

Suzette Woodward
Head of Patient Safety Improvement NPSA, National Patient Safety Agency


"Patient safety is about people not statistics."

UNITED KINGDOM

Dianna McDonald
UK Survey Manager, Picker Institute Europe



UNITED KINGDOM

Peter Walsh
Chief Executive AvMA, Action against Medical Accidents, member LMCA, Long Term Medical Conditions Alliance


"Patient safety and justice for people affected by medical errors are not mutually exclusive – they are inseparable."

UNITED KINGDOM

Andrew Corbett-Nolan
Chief executive Health and Social Care Quality Centre / ESQH


"Safer care is the first duty of healthcare quality."

UNITED KINGDOM

Gonny Pol
Consultant Health and Social Care Quality Centre / ESQH


"I have a dream: a dream where SIMPATIE brings people (professionals & patients) all over the world together for a safe, Safer, SAFEST healthcare."

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