HMC to host ME Forum on quality and safety in May

Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has announced that it will host the Middle East (ME) Forum on quality improvement and patient safety in healthcare from May 5 to 7. It will mark the fifth time that HMC collaborated with the internationally renowned Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to deliver high quality advanced learning in the science of improvement.Led by HMC’s Hamad Healthcare Quality Institute, the annual conference will be held at Qatar National Convention Centre. The conference will feature plenaries, lectures and workshop session from local, regional and global health experts. The conference theme is “System wide transformation to achieve better patient care”. It centres on transformative approaches to optimising health systems taking into account three dimensions: the experience of the individual; how to improve the health of a defined population; and how to reduce the per capita cost of healthcare. Topics covered in the wide-ranging programme will highlight the science behind improvement, the continuing transformation of clinical interventions and clinical systems, how healthcare leaders can drive improvements in their teams and organisations, and ways in which healthcare workers can enhance engagement with patients.HMC chief quality officer Dr Ronald Wyatt, who is also the ME forum chair, said the ME Forum had become a mainstay on the event calendar and a popular professional development opportunity with healthcare industry workers in both Qatar and the wider region. “The Middle East Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare provides an ideal platform to network with other experts, share best practice learning and discover not only the essence of improvement science  but practical tools and ways of how to introduce real and sustainable systems improvements,” said Dr Wyatt. “We do this again with our strategic partner, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, who share with us their global quality improvement learnings so that we can adapt what works best for us here for our industry and our patients,” he added. The conference will again include the highly popular quality improvement poster exhibition highlighting successful quality and safety improvement initiatives. Successful poster submissions will be included in the poster exhibition that will be on public display throughout the event. Prospective participants can visit https://www.hamad.qa/ihimeforum2017 to register their interest and learn more about the poster competition. Doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals attending the Middle East Forum are eligible to earn continuing healthcare education points.