World Patient Safety Day

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2026 InternationalSep 17 International Thu, Sep 17Observances Holiday 2025 InternationalSep 17 International Wed, Sep 17Observances Holiday 2024 InternationalSep 17 International Tue, Sep 17Observances Holiday 2023 InternationalSep 17 International Sun, Sep 17Observances Holiday 2022 InternationalSep 17 International Sat, Sep 17Observances Holiday
Summary
World Patient Safety Day was established to enhance global understanding of patient safety

World Patient Safety Day was established by the 72nd World Health Assembly, in May 2019, with the adoption of resolution WHA72.6 on ‘Global action on patient safety’, and an endorsement for the Day to be marked annually on 17 September. World Patient Safety Day builds on a series of successful annual Global Ministerial Summits on Patient Safety, which started in London in 2016.

The overall objectives of World Patient Safety Day are to enhance global understanding of patient safety, increase public engagement in the safety of health care and promote global actions to enhance patient safety and reduce patient harm. The origin of the Day is firmly grounded in the fundamental principle of medicine – First, do no harm.

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