WHO Collaborating Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Training, Muscat, Oman
The WHO Collaborating Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Training in Muscat, Oman was designated in August 2018. The centre focuses mainly on patient safety and health system research and development. The centre’s activities include hosting the global resource for best practices in patient safety and quality care with WHO's leadership to identify scalable solutions and systems leverages for improving patient safety and quality of care in the Region. It also provides education and training on core competencies of patient safety, in collaboration with WHO and other public/non-profit institutions, advocates for the integration of safety and quality goals in health policies and strategies, within the perspective of systems governance, advocates for integration of patients' safety teaching (e.g. WHO patients' safety curriculum guide) within the curriculum of academic health institutions in collaboration with WHO and its collaborating centres on quality and patient safety while promoting research on patient safety and quality.
WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety Policies and Strategies, Saudi Arabia
The WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety Policies and Strategies in Saudi Arabia was designated in March 2020. It focuses mainly on patient safety. The Saudi Patient Safety Centre aims to support the implementation of the WHO global patient safety challenges with primary focus on medication without harm, through capacity-building in low- and middle-income countries. At the request of WHO and its Member States, it helps develop electronic tools to assess, measure and improve the patient safety culture. The Saudi Patient Safety Centre also supports WHO’s patient safety priorities through capacity-building on the role of health professionals in promoting safer care and WHO programmes that aim at promoting patient empowerment and community engagement for ensuring safer care, through the collection of lessons learned from patient safety initiatives.