Award overview:

The Saudi Patient Safety Center (SPSC) has established the annual Patient Safety Awards to highlight novel and innovative applied projects and initiatives that have contributed to the Saudi Healthcare sector's aim of reducing patient harm.

The National Patient Safety Award recognizes an individual, group, or program within a hospital, healthcare system, or healthcare organizations and societies that have devised creative ways to improve, encourage, or enhance patient safety.

Goal: To recognize patient safety innovations that benefit and spread across the healthcare organizations, community organizations, training, and education centers, thereby promote an organizational culture of safety, and reduce preventable patient harm.