International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care 2010

The Forum has as its mission to support the movement for health care improvement. It aims to improve outcomes for patients and communities, provide practical ideas that can be implemented in the workplace, promote research into quality and safety improvement, foster effective innovation, and connect health care leaders and practitioners worldwide.

The main way that it meets these aims is through the annual Forum, a three day meeting that brings together a very international group of people (from chief executives and government officials to health care managers and clinicians) who share a concern and a passion for improving quality and safety in healthcare. This year s Forum in Berlin, for example, brought together 2,000 attendees from over 60 countries to take part in sessions that ranged from the basic disciplines of quality improvement to the latest thinking in how to improve quality and safety.

Our Vision
Improve outcomes for patients and communities

• Provide practical ideas that can be implemented in the workplace

• Build coalitions to inspire understanding between health care organisations

• Promote research into quality and safety improvement

• Foster effective innovation

• Gather the evidence needed to support local improvement

• Connect health care leaders and practitioners worldwide

• Translate concern about the quality and safety of care into effective action