19 Amendments of Christel SCHALDEMOSE related to 2013/2022(INI)
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas patients’ experiences and inputs often differ from those of health professionals and can be of great value in establishing measures aimed at improving patient safety;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
Recital K b (new)
Kb. whereas the rules on patient mobility are being implemented in the EU, and hence European patients have a greater need to know about patient safety in the various Member States;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – indent 2
Paragraph 10 – indent 2
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – indent 4
Paragraph 10 – indent 4
measures to encourage research into patient safety using an evidence-based approach with a focus on implementation;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – indent 4 a (new)
Paragraph 10 – indent 4 a (new)
- measures to ensure better coherence and continuity in patients’ progress through the system, focusing on transitions between sectors and the transmission of information, for example from the hospital to the primary care sector;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Member States to adopt measures which raise the quality – and not just the quantity – of reporting on adverse events, so that reporting contains information which can really improve safety, and which makes it easy to call up data from the system for a comprehensive and systematic evaluation;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on the Member States to do far more to incorporate patients’ information into electronic systems on patient safety and adverse events, and to systematically evaluate this information precisely in order to prevent errors;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Urges the Member States to introduce information systems whereby patients and their families themselves are trained to report errors in treatment and adverse events to the authorities;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 1
Paragraph 16 – indent 1
prevent HAIs, both inside and outside hospitals by the systematic implementation of the One Health approach, whereby both human and veterinary medical professionals undertake to prevent resistant infections and reduce the use of antibiotics;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on the Member States to promote targeted action to prevent errors in hospitals, including the implementation of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Calls on the Member States to draw up national guidelines for hand hygiene and general cleaning of hospitals and care homes;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Urges the Member States to encourage information input by health professionals on how patients can avoid being harmed as a result of contact with the health system;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Calls on the Member States to take measures to increase patients’ families’ involvement in preventing errors in medication and self-treatment;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Member States to introduce national guidelines for health professionals on how to train patients in the use of antibiotics;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls on the Member States to encourage practising doctors to inform patients of their rights and opportunities to lodge complaints and report errors and adverse events;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls in particular on those Member States which conduct specific national HAI prevalence surveys using a harmonised methodology developed by the ECDC to do so on a regular basis, and urges those Member States which do not do so to introduce such surveys; urges the Commission to look more closely at the Global Microbial Identifier system1, which is supported by a large number of researchers throughout the world, and which can monitor and detect alert healthcare associated organisms and boost capacity to respond to the spread (including the cross-border spread) of infections; __________________ 1 http://www.globalmicrobialidentifier.org/
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Calls on the Member States to encourage hospitals and care homes to focus on basic care tasks such as observation of patients and assessment of pressure sores, which are a major but often hidden problem for hospitalised patients and inmates;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Encourages the ECDC in its efforts to support and standardise the monitoring of HAIs, and, in particular, calls on it to continue developing structure and process indicators, since promoting more uniform monitoring of HAIs is of crucial importance in addressing these problems;