Spotlight: Patient safety and NCDs (62) Conclusion

23 September, 2026

Dear HIFA colleagues,

Thank you to all who have contributed to this rich global conversation. The discussion now draws to an end officially, but we welcome further contributions on patient safety and NCDs over the coming weeks and months. We shall prepare a summary and a concise learning brief suitable for publication on the WHO Health Services Learning Hub (HLH).

Our thanks to our Patient Safety Spotlight working group: Diana Zandi (WHO), Charles Vincent (University of Oxford), Meena Cherian (HIFA steering group) and Ashwathy Sunil (Geneva Graduate Institute) for your help in putting this together. Thanks to WHO for sponsorship.

HIFA Spotlights are a rapid, easy and affordable way to put YOUR priority topic at the centre of the global health community. For one focused week, we mobilise the HIFA forums to generate insights, visibility, and engagement around the issue you care about most.

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Best wishes, Neil

HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org

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Neil Pakenham-Walsh