The Health Roundtable is launching a major new Patient Safety Initiative in 2009: 
Standardising Actions For Excellent "SAFE" Patient Care

The clinical interventions at the heart of the SAFE Patient Care Program are:

• Reducing harm from deterioration
Aim: Reduce in-hospital cardiac arrest and mortality rate through earlier recognition and treatment of the deteriorating patient

• Reducing harm in critical care
Aim: Improve the care of patients receiving critical care through the reliable application of central line and ventilator care bundles

• Reducing harm in peri-operative care
Aim: Prevent surgical site infections for patients undergoing electivesurgical procedures in the hospital setting

• Reducing harm from high-risk medicines
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Reduce incorrect prescribing, dosing, and administration of anticoagulants, opiates, insulin and injectable sedatives