Season's greetings from the SAFEST consortium! #PatientSafety #Health

Check out our #latest (... and penultimate) newsletter in our #project journey! #December mailchi.mp/dbaecf6ee14e...

🚀 Big milestone for SAFEST! We've completed PROMs & PREMs recruitment from 1,957+ patients across all SAFETS participating hospitals.

In our latest 'Partner Perspectives' post, read about what SENSAR's been up to in SAFEST this 2025! 🔗 safestsurgery.eu/blog/sensar-...

🌍 We’re excited to welcome 70 new hospitals from around the world to the SAFEST Initiative! Each of these institutions is taking an important step toward strengthening patient safety in perioperative care — and we couldn’t be more excited to have them on board.

SAFEST was proudly featured at ISQua’s 41st International Conference in São Paulo, Brazil!

🏥 Prof. Joel Starkopf, Head of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at the University of Tartu, gave a presentation entitled "Patient safety and perioperative care – how far we are from European standards?" at the #BaltAnestIC2025 conference held on 18-20 September!

🧭 Introducing COMPASS: Your Interactive Guide to Safer Surgery: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j34R... 🔗 Explore COMPASS here: compass.esaic.org/perioperativ... #COMPASS #SurgicalSafety #PatientSafety #HealthcareInnovation #EvidenceBased #PerioperativeCare #MedicalEducation#SAFEST

On 3-4 October 2025, SAK held its annual #conference for auditors and consultants, focusing on #quality and #safety in healthcare. 🌟 Explore how our project’s self-evaluation tool can enrich accreditation and help deliver even safer care! 🚀 #HealthcareQuality #PatientSafety

📣 In the final installment of our #PatientSafety Country Profile series, we travel to Spain! 🔗 safestsurgery.eu/blog/patient...

🗺️ Next up in our #PatientSafety Country Profile series: #Portugal! 🚏 🔗 safestsurgery.eu/blog/patient...

🚀 Our project has successfully completed all expert sessions in the Learning Collaborative! A big thank you to all experts & partners for their insights that will shape safer perioperative care across Europe. 💡🔍 #PatientSafety #SAFEST

🌍 In the latest newsletter of our partners @esaic.bsky.social, and on the occasion of World Patient Safety Day 2025, they are spotlighting SAFEST! 🇪🇺 🧵: /1

Today is #WorldPatientSafetyDay Children aren’t small adults. They need safe care tailored to their: 🧸 Age 🧸 Weight 🧸 Development 🧸 Medical needs 🧸 Ability to communicate 🧸 Context Learn why we need to ensure safe care for all children from the start👉 bit.ly/WPSD2025WHO #PatientSafety

🌍 Celebrate #WorldPatientSafetyDay 2025! At ESAIC we support the principles of the Helsinki Declaration and highlight the vital role of anaesthesiologists & ICU professionals in keeping patients safe Read our special edition newsletter on #PatientSafety: zurl.co/I104M#WorldPatientSafetyDay#PatientSafety#WPSD25

As we mark #WorldPatientSafetyDay 2025, Prof. Preckel and Dr Arnal highlight the role of patients and families as care partners and the need for #PatientSafety education in training. Read our Patient Safety special edition newsletter: zurl.co/o6UiU#WorldPatientSafetyDay#PatientSafety #WPSD25

Today, on World Patient Safety Day #WPSD25, we would like to showcase our efforts to ensure patient safety across the perioperative care journey.

📍 This week, we visit #TheNetherlands in our #PatientSafety Country Profile series! safestsurgery.eu/blog/patient...

#SAFESTsurgery is now a global phenomenon! 🚀 23 hospitals from beyond Europe are enhancing safety and health in the perioperative process, and 36 more —🌎— are eager to join the self-assessment. The transformation is underway 🌍💪 #SAFEST #GlobalHealth #HospitalSafety

📣 Next in our #PatientSafety Country Profile series: Estonia! 🔗 safestsurgery.eu/blog/country...

📍 SAFEST was featured at the XLIII Annual Meeting of the Sociedad Española de Epidemiología and the XX Congress of the Portuguese Epidemiology Association, held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, from September 2 to 5. #SAFESTProject #PatientSafety #PerioperativeCare

A #SAFEST in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, “Multidisciplinary, evidence-based, patient-centred peri-operative patient safety recommendations: a European consensus study” by Daniel Arnal Velasco et al, has generated an interesting editorial! 🔗 www.bjanaesthesia.org.uk/article/S000...

🏥First up in our Patient Safety Country Profile series: the Czech Republic! safestsurgery.eu/blog/country...

🚨 Introducing our #blog series profiling #patientsafety in five countries represented in the SAFEST consortium! "Patient Safety Across Borders: The SAFEST Patient Safety Country Profiles"🔗https://safestsurgery.eu/blog/patient-safety-across-borders-the-safest-patient-safety-country-profiles

#PatientSafety #Compass safestsurgery.eu/safestcompass

SAFEST NOVA NSPH team participated in “Dados que contam” organised by @ENSP_UNL to empower Portuguese patient associations using the SAFEST project as an example #EuropeanHealthDataSpace #PatientEmpowerment #HealthData #PatientInvolvement #SAFESTProject #PatientSafety #PerioperativeCare

📰Have you read our latest #newsletter? If you haven't, you may have missed the launch 🚀 of the SAFEST Compass! Check it out here: safestsurgery.eu/safestcompass

📰The 16th Annual SAK Conference on Quality and Safety in Healthcare (19-20 May 2025) was the perfect venue to spotlight the SAFEST project! 🏥Our call for self-evaluation reached hospitals across Czechia and Slovakia!

Our June newsletter is out! Happy #summer reading: 🔗https://mailchi.mp/cb5d53469da4/safest-newsletter-14193120

🛠️ Innovation in Practice – Discover Our Latest SAFEST Innovation Spotlights! Our partner hospitals are pioneering new ways to make surgery safer and care more patient-centred.

Our partner from SENSAR, Dr. Daniel Arnal Velasco, is representing SAFEST at the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care's #EA25 conference!

💡 Innovation Spotlight #9 is out! Learn more about the team at Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón and their approach to providing #patient support via primary care #weeks, even #months before #surgery safestsurgery.eu/updates/inno...

The Radboudumc perioperative patient safety #team was proud to share insights and experiences on perioperative patient safety with our colleagues from Tartu University Hospital.

💡 In this edition of our #innovation spotlight series, Dr. Liivi Maddison (liivi maddison), Head of II #IntensiveCare Department, shares with us North Estonia Medical Centre's approach to delirium #prevention🏥 safestsurgery.eu/updates/inno...

💡 Guided by Mgr. Helena McMenamin, Innovation spotlight #7, delves into the Military University Hospital’s (Prague) novel approach to pre-surgical preparation 🏥

💡 Innovation spotlight #6 takes us to Hořovice Hospital, a multi-specialty healthcare facility in the western Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Mgr. Blanka Hošková and Dr. František Vlček share with us the hospital's steps to address #patient frailty. safestsurgery.eu/news/innovat...

🎥 Scheduled for surgery? You have a key role to play in your safety! Our project empowers patients to speak up, ask questions & feel confident before, during & after surgery. 💬 Your voice matters 👇

📣 Thank you to all #participants for taking the time to #learn more about the SAFEST Perioperative Safety Initiative. We hope to learn from your guided self-evaluation processes, too! #PatientSafety #Global #Care #Hospitals #Surgery

💡 Dr. Paula Pérez Caballero, #anaesthesiologist at Hospital La Fe de Valencia, shared key #insights gained during the SAFEST guided self-evaluation process and how it has catalysed #change. #PatientSafety #evaluation #improvement #innovation

🌎 🌍 🌏 Hospitals in different parts of the world will soon join our project to perform guided self-evaluations! #PatientSafety #Care #Surgery #PerioperativeSafety

📣 Kicking off the first of our series of informational #webinars on the open phase of our perioperative safety #initiative! safestsurgery.eu/project/peri...

⏯️Learn how to play an important role in your surgical care journey: #patientsafety #hospitalcare #surgery #postsurgery #primarycare www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr1o...

🚨 Sneak peek: We will soon launch an interactive tool called the ‘SAFEST Compass’ to showcase 101 Patient Safety Recommendations for the journey before, during, & after surgery. In the link below, we offer a preview of the recommendations in 8 languages! 🔗 safestsurgery.eu/news/sneak-p...

📢 The open phase of the perioperative self-evaluation is approaching!

🚨 New #innovation spotlight alert! Dr. Anita Heideveld-Chevalking and Sjoukje de Vet-Kersten @radboudumc.bsky.social guide us through a new hand #hygiene protocol they co-developed specifically for the OR and #anaesthesia settings 🏥

🚨 SAFEST is hosting the first of a series of #webinars for hospitals joining our Perioperative Safety Initiative! Be sure to register to attend one!

🤝 Last week, staff from the departments of #surgery & anaesthesiology and the operating theatre of Tartu University Hospital visited @radboudumc.bsky.social to learn about their approach to perioperative #safety & #care.

📣 Once again, SAFEST takes the stage at the SAK Conference 2025 in May from the 19th to the 20th! SAK is the Czech leader in healthcare #quality & #safety accreditation. This year, they will share the self-assessment opportunity, inviting other members of the Czech hospital community to join 🏥

🚧 Finetuning of the SAFEST platform 🔗 safest.fadq.org/web/guest/home 🔗 is in full swing!