World Patient Safety Day happening 17 September 2025
The World Health Organisation’s World Patient Safety Day is 17 September 2025 and this year, the theme is “Safe care for every newborn and every child”, with the slogan “Patient safety from the start!”
World Patient Safety Day is an opportunity to raise public awareness, foster collaboration between stakeholders and mobilize global action to improve patient safety.
WHO calls for urgent action to eliminate avoidable harm in paediatric and newborn care, building on the efforts of previous campaigns on ‘safe childbirth’, ‘prioritizing patient safety’, ‘health worker safety’, ‘medication safety’, ‘patient and family engagement’ and ‘diagnostic safety’. World Patient Safety Day 2025 aims to drive meaningful improvements and reaffirm every child’s right to safe and quality care.
Yorkshire and Humber, the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration will be involved in activities related to this day. We will be updating soon….
You can find out more about World Patient Safety Day here.
Watch Professor Jane O’Hara talk about the many roles of patients and families in supporting Patient Safety.
You can read more about how patients are involved in our work here: