"We cultivate quality to reap health"
Under the auspices of the Director of Health Affairs in Jeddah, Dr. Sami Badawood, the Health Group of the Saudi Council for Quality is organizing its annual scientific meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, in conjunction with its celebration of the tenth anniversary of the launch of its scientific activities and awareness-raising initiatives. This symposium will be held at the Training and Studies Center at the Health Affairs Directorate, which is located at King Fahd General Hospital, Jeddah, from eight in the morning until four in the afternoon.
The President of the Saudi Council for Quality, Dr. Ayed Al-Omari, explained that the health group in the council launched with distinction since the spring of 2003, and the first of its activities was the launch of a campaign to raise awareness of the rights of patients and workers in the health sector. The continuity and diversity of the group’s activities at the local, regional and international levels make this distinction worthy. To celebrate a march full of lectures, seminars, visits, articles and studies.
For his part, the head of the group, the head of the scientific committee, Dr. Nashaat Al-Nafouri, explained that the Quality Group in the health sector embodies a model of a voluntary, professional, and civil professional tender process. Professionalism, communication and inclusiveness by including the voice of the beneficiary of the service as a basic member of the work team as a lawyer and advocate for him, indicating that the sustainability of the group’s activities was corrected for a false belief that was known as the first conference, which often has no second or next, and consequently, the committee chose the slogan of the forum “We cultivate its quality to reap Health".
A constellation of speakers from various health sectors will participate in the forum, and eight basic axes will be discussed to promote a culture of perfection in health services based on the need to integrate quality, safety, environmental health, sustainability, patient path and processes from initial maps to quality applications in primary health care and the importance of the national accreditation program and awards of excellence. Localization, quality in scientific research, performance indicators in specialized services, the role of social responsibility for workers and leaders of health facilities, and opening new horizons for contemporary services for the "Z" and "Alpha" generations, which depend on leaving a positive experience with every opportunity to provide a health service and benefit from technology and informatics. In furtherance of the principle of communication with the stakeholders, the experience of open dialogue will be presented in examining the opinions of the beneficiaries of the service from patients and workers in cooperation with the group''s staff. In the end, Dr. Nashat Al-Nafouri stressed that the group’s message is that quality is our mission and the culture of perfection is our goal, work is our approach, and the patient is our inspiration.
