Dr. Mike Durkin Assumes Role as Vice Chairman of Patient Safety Movement Foundation Board of Directors
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF), a global non-profit on a mission to achieve zero preventable patient deaths by 2030, has appointed Mike Durkin, OBE, MBBS, FRCA, FRCP, DSc to serve as vice chairman of the board of directors. Dr. Durkin will work alongside Chairman Michael A.E. Ramsay, MD, FRCA to provide guidance and strategic support of the organization’s goal to create safer and more reliable healthcare systems.
“Dr. Durkin has been an invaluable member of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation board since he joined in 2018, and we are pleased he has accepted this leadership role,” said Dr. Ramsay. “His experience leading the National Patient Safety Improvement Programme for the National Health Service (NHS) England and work with the World Health Organization’s international development of patient safety systems make him an ideal fit to help lead our orga
440,000 lives, a figure that was reported in the
Journal of Patient Safety in 2013.
The Irvine, California-based Patient Safety Movement Foundation has shifted its focus away from preventing specific kinds of patient harm, says Donna Prosser, DNP, RN, chief clinical officer of the nonprofit group. We have revised our commitment model because in the prior eight years what we were asking healthcare organizations to do was to make a commitment to improving safety and reducing incidents of medical harm through certain populations. When I say populations, I mean reducing falls, reducing healthcare-acquired infections, reducing sepsis, and so on. So, we had asked healthcare organizations to make a commitment to improve specific focus areas, she says.
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