Legal Framework and Challenges of Patient Safety Incident Reporting-Learning System – Healthcare Students’ Perspective

Description

Regulation (EU) 2021/522 enhancing access to quality, patient-centred, outcome-based healthcare and related care services take an important role in high quality care centred healthcare. WHO states that “high quality care” is care that is safe, effective, people-centred, timely, efficient, equitable and integrated. Safety is one aspect of quality healthcare. At the same time the Council Recommendation 2009/C 151/01 promotes the education of healthcare workers on patient safety, first of all in undergraduate education. The concept of patient safety includes a patient safety incident reporting-learning system, which means that this component must be integrated into the study process – during the students' clinical placement.The aim of the research is to analyse the legal framework on how to integrate a patient safety incident reporting and learning system among medical students in clinical placement.. The methods of interpretation of legal norms were applied in the research to analyse national and international regulation. National regulations requires that medical institutions must implement and maintain a non-identifying internal patient safety incident reporting-learning system. But given that a student on clinical placement in a healthcare institution is not automatically granted the same rights as employees, it can be assumed that it is impossible for a student to report patient safety incidents and receive feedback on the causes to learn from them.Patient safety incident reporting and learning system was integrated during the clinical placement, which was organised in a simulated hospital format in the simulation centre. 140 patient’s safety incidents were registered during the period of two weeks. . To improve the quality of care centred healthcare the educational institutions shell develop and integrate a Clinical Placement Patient Safety Incident Reporting- Learning System into clinical placement. The integrated system could prevent and reduce risks, errors and harm that could occur to patients during provision of health care.

Period	29 Mar 2023
Event title	RSU Research week 2023: PLACES
Event type	Conference
Conference number	3
Organiser	Rīga Stradiņš University
Location	Rīga, LatviaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International