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India surges ahead for patient safety: an initiative by AIIMS |
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Friday, 18 June 2010 |
The Department of Hospital Administration, AIIMS in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), INCLEN Trust, and supported by knowledge partner Becton Dickinson India Pvt. Ltd. (BD India), has commenced a single platform with aims to bring on reputed clinicians, nurses, and hospital administrators from 12 leading public and private hospitals and promote the culture of patient safety under the umbrella of NIPS (National Initiative for Patient Safety). NIPS is an initiative conceptualized by the Department of Hospital Administration, AIIMS, with the objective to sensitize the various healthcare institutions on the concepts of patient safety and healthcare associated infections, identify the prevailing infection control processes being followed across the medical colleges / hospitals of India through baseline assessments of infection control processes, identify the gaps prevailing in the realm of patient safety, and thereby help the hospitals take measures to improve the care being imparted to the patients. The newly formed common platform, NIPS II, marks the continuity of the series of comprehensive workshops providing a base for national experts to share their experience in the implementation of patient safety practices; as well as interact and learn global practices on patient safety including infection control from internationally renowned experts on patient safety.
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