Health Leaders Urge Immediate Action on Patient and Workforce Safety
The NSC pressed for immediate action to address safety from a total systems approach and implored leaders to adopt safety as a core value and foster collective action to uphold this value.
- The NSC pressed for immediate action to address safety from a total systems approach and implored leaders to adopt safety as a core value and foster collective action to uphold this value.
- An emerging body of evidence reveals that health care safety has declined significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The pandemic has also magnified patient and workforce safety risks and harms and introduced new threats to an already fragile system.
- Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety , developed in 2020 by the 27 organizations that comprise the NSC, provides concrete guidance for leaders to assess and fortify their systems approach to safety by driving improvement in four foundational areas: Culture, Leadership, and Governance; Patient and Family Engagement; Workforce Safety; and Learning System.