The departments of Torrevieja and Vinalopó put in project 12 March slogans for safe care.

-initiative consists of 12 slogans in favor of safe practices in the health care

-the management of both departments bet by offering his patients the highest clinical safety

-the objective is to reduceminimize and eliminate unnecessary and unacceptable risks to healthcare

Spain, March of 2013.- the departments of Torrevieja and the Vinalopó have launched the project 12 slogans for a safe care ”, supported by the area of internal communication, and framed in the strategic security of the Group Bank Health Plan, effective 2011-2015.

It has been running a campaign of internal communication addressed to employees of both departments, composed of 12 slogans, one for each month of the year, who try to bring to the professional issues of the culture of patient safety through word games.

don’t let drugs you confused ”, what you tell us, he has: reports ”, these are some of the messages transmitted in the campaign so far. The first aims to avoid confusion between drugs of appearance or name similiar and the second involve practitioners in the use of the system for notification of adverse events (SINEA), to improve the management of health risks.

According to the Ministry of health, the safety of the patient, key component of the quality of care, has acquired great importance in recent years, both for patients and their families, who want to feel secure and confident in the health care received, as for professionals who want to offer a safe, effective and efficient health care.

In addition, unwanted effects in health care represent a cause of high morbidity and mortality in all developed health systems. Therefore, the direction of both departments wanted to make clear the importance of ensuring maximum clinical safety, aiming to reduce, minimize and eliminate unnecessary and unacceptable risks to health care.