WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION SAFETY CHECKLIST
On the 26th of January 2009 the National Patient Safety Agency published an alert requiring healthcare organisations in England and Wales to implement the World Health Organisation Surgical Safety Checklist (adapted for England and Wales) for every patient undergoing a surgical procedure.
The alert is part of the World Health Organisation’s Second Global Patient Safety Challenge, ‘Safe Surgery Saves Lives’.
Click here to download the WHO checklist
Click here to read more about it
VIDEOS OF THE CHECKLIST
Click here to watch the NPSA adaptation for England and Wales
Click here to see how the NPSA don’t want us to do the check
If you’d like to see the original videos published by the World Health Organisation;
Click here to see the original WHO version of how to do the checklist
Click here for the original WHO version of how not to do it.
And finally;
Click here to see how one surgeon starts the check in the United States.
And here’s how they do it on ER!.
(Spot the ER mistakes!)
- WHO Safety Checklist – Introduce Yourselves!
