Clinical Care Platform: Recent Episodes
Clinical Care Platform
Weekly clinical live lectures to keep health workers abreast on clinical care developments and updates.
No one should be harmed in health care. And yet globally ...
- 134 million adverse events occur each year due to unsafe care in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries, contributing to 2.6 million deaths annually
- 15% of hospital expenses can be attributed to treating patient safety failures in OECD countries
- 4 out of 10 patients are harmed in the primary and ambulatory settings; up to 80% of harm in these settings can be avoided
South Africa has seen a rapid increase in the volume of claims and the cost per claim due to unsafe care. Public health total malpractice claims are estimated at 1.4 billion, risking the collapse of the health system and delays in the achievement of universal health coverage.