World Patient Safety Day 2021

”Dear colleagues,

Wishing everyone a very happy, successful and impactful World Patient Safety Day 2021.

Thank you very much for so actively sharing your extremely impressive plans and activities for World Patient Safety Day 2021. It is truly inspiring to witness the commitment of members of the Global Patient Safety Network.

I would like to highlight few important points:

World Patient Safety Day 2021 Virtual Global Conference “Together for safe and respectful maternal and newborn care" is being organized on Friday, 17 September 14:00-18:00 CEST. Interpretation is provided in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Please disseminate the information widely through your networks.

Please find the programme of work enclosed and register here.

WHO has launched a map that collects information about World Patient Safety Day events organized in different countries. Now the map just shows the number of events in different countries, it would also be displaying the names of the organizing entities. Please register your event here.

World Patient Safety Day 2021 campaign materials in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish can be accessed through the campaign materials page: https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-patient-safety-day/2021/campaign-materials ”

With best wishes,
Dr Neelam DHINGRA
Unit Head
Patient Safety Flagship/
A Decade of Patient Safety 2020-2030
World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland