In this this special SafetyNet webinar on The Global State of Patient Safety Report 2025, report authors Bryony Dean Franklin, Melanie Leis and Sophia Batchelor discussed the key findings of the report and demonstrate the global state of patient safety dashboard.
Analysis of more than 100 patient safety indicators found that, globally:
- Excess mortality for people with severe mental illness is a major concern. For people with bipolar disorder, excess mortality has risen by 41 per cent since 2015, and by 21 per cent in the same period for people with schizophrenia.
- In 2023, there were approximately 103,000 deaths due to the adverse effects of medical treatment.
- Average waiting times for selected planned procedures, which increased during the pandemic, are largely returning to pre-pandemic levels.
- Average rates of maternal deaths, stillbirths and neonatal deaths continue to fall, and neonatal mortality rates (deaths of babies under 28 days old) have fallen 46 per cent since 2000