As conclusões do relatório e as sugestões (simples e pragmáticas) para a melhoria do sistema, aplicam-se na íntegra a Portugal.
Do sumário executivo consta:
- Place the quality of patient care, especially patient safety, above all other aims.
- Engage, empower, and hear patients and carers at all times.
- Foster whole-heartedly the growth and development of all staff, including their ability and support to improve the processes in which they work.
- Embrace transparency unequivocally and everywhere, in the service of accountability, trust, and the growth of knowledge.
O relatório e as cartas (em formato pdf) estão disponíveis em:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/berwick-review-into-patient-safety
Autor: José Morais Antas em Forum AESE Saúde