What is the ENSH?
The European Network for Safer Healthcare is an informal group of health stakeholders working together to ensure patient and healthcare workforce safety is in the EU policy limelight.
Multiple factors, threaten everyone`s safety in healthcare settings
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Antibiotic
resistance -
Infections
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Viral
contaigions -
Procedural or
fulfilment errors -
Exposure to
hazardous drugs
Ensuring the highest standards of safety for patients and the health workforce is the cornerstone of an effective health system and an indicator of the quality of care. It is vitally important that safety in the healthcare system is safeguarded when devising policy responses to pressing health needs.
The European Network for Safer Healthcare is an informal group of health stakeholders working together to ensure patient and healthcare workforce safety is in the limelight of the EU policy agenda. The network is firmly resolved to represent a constructive, vigilant and responsive 3rd party body to support European and national initiatives aimed at enshrining best practice in patient safety in the EU.
More needs to be done to
reduce the cost of unsafe healthcare
The direct cost of unsafe care is about:
EUR 21 billion
That’s 1.5% of health expenditure for European Union countries.
Investing in safer healthcare
will prevent:
260.000 fewer incidents
of permanent disability
and 95.000 fewer
deaths per year.
It is vitally important that safety in the healthcare system is safeguarded when devising policy responses to pressing health needs.
The European Network for Safer Healthcare is firmly resolved to represent a constructive, vigilant and responsive 3rd party body to support European and national initiatives aimed at enshrining best practice in patient safety in the EU.
The ENSH Members
The ENSH Meetings
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Publications
- May 2015: Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance
- November 2016: Report Global guidelines on the prevention of surgical site infection
- March 2017: Monitoring and Evaluation of National Action Plans on AMR
- June 2018: Tackling AMR Together: Working paper 1.0 - Multisectoral coordination.
- July 2018: Analysis report on the second round of results of AMR country self-assessment survey.
- September 2018: Tackling AMR together. Working Paper 5.0 - Enhancing the focus on gender and equity.
- March 2019: Turning plans into action for AMR – Working Paper 2.0 - Implementation and coordination.
- 2-3 March 2019: Fourth Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety - Jeddah Declaration on Patient Safety
- April 2019: Report No time to wait: Securing the future from drug-resistant infections
- 23 May 2019: World Health Assembly Update
- July 2017: "Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance, Ensuring Sustainable R&D"
- November 2018: Health at glance 2018
- November 2018: stemming the superbug tide - Just a Few Dollars More
- 2018: Report on The Economics of Patient Safety in Primary and Ambulatory Care
- March 2019: Policy brief on Averting the AMR crisis - What are the avenues for policy action for countries in Europe?
- 2019: Report on Antimicrobial Resistance - Tackling the Burden in the European Union
- November 2019: Report Health at a Glance 2019
- November 2019: Country Health Profiles 2019
- November 2018: Report - Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Europe 2017
- May 2018: Annual Epidemiological Report for 2016 - Healthcare-associated infections in intensive care units
- May 2018: Annual Epidemiological Report for 2016 - Healthcare-associated infections: surgical site infections
- May 2018: Surveillance report - Incidence and attributable mortality of healthcare-associated infections in intensive care units in Europe, 2008-2012
- November 2019: Antimicrobial consumption - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2018
- November 2019: Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Europe 2018
- November 2019: Survey of healthcare workers’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviours on antibiotics, antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance in the EU/EEA
- November 2020: Antimicrobial resistance in the EU/EEA (EARS-Net) - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2019
- June 2016: Council conclusions on the next steps under a One Health approach to combat antimicrobial resistance.
- Regulation (EU) 2019/4 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the manufacture, placing on the market and use of medicated feed The manufacture, placing on the market and use of medicated feed
- Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on veterinary medicinal products
- June 2019: Council Conclusions on the next steps towards in combating antimicrobial resistance
- September 2015: guideline on the use of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics analyses in the development of antibiotics
- December 2017: Joint Scientific Opinion on measures to reduce the need to use antimicrobial agents in animal husbandry in the European Union, and the resulting impacts on food safety (RONAFA)
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