About the 2027 Summit
"Safety is not a framework you build. It is a value you hold.”
Last updated on 5 November 2026
Healthcare systems worldwide face mounting pressures to improve patient outcomes, deliver better value and embrace digital technologies responsibly.
The 8th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety brings these priorities together around a central proposition: Safer care is fundamental to achieving better outcomes, greater value and sustainable healthcare systems.
The Summit will explore how patient safety can be strengthened by advancing value-based care and the safe, effective, and responsible use of digital technologies. Through international dialogue, shared experiences, and practical insights, it aims to translate ideas into actionable policies, organisational strategies, and collective commitments that can drive meaningful improvements in patient care.
Four Key Perspectives Shaping the Summit
The Summit’s discussions will be guided by four complementary perspectives that explore how patient safety creates value, the opportunities and risks presented by digital technologies, and the leadership and commitment to achieve safer, better care.
The Safety Dividend
Safer care creates better value. Preventing avoidable harm improves patient outcomes and experiences, while reducing unnecessary treatment, waste and cost to patients and healthcare systems.
The Technology Dividend
Digital technologies can enhance patient safety. Digital tools can support safer decisions, better coordination and continuity of care, and more effective healthcare delivery, creating new opportunities to improve patient outcomes and value.
The Safety Imperative
Digital transformation can introduce new patient safety risks. As digital tools, such as electronic medical records, clinical decision support systems, point-of-care technologies and artificial intelligence, become increasing embedded in healthcare delivery, governments, healthcare organisations, and technology partners must strengthen governance, accountability, and safeguards to ensure their safe, effective and responsible use.
From Compliance to Commitment
Lasting improvements in safety depend on people, leadership, and culture. Beyond policies, standards and regulations, healthcare systems must foster shared accountability, continuous learning, and a commitment to safer care at every level.
From Dialogue to Policy Action
A feature of the Summit will be its four Policy Action Labs, designed to move beyond identifying challenges towards developing practical solutions to pressing patient safety issues, guided by the Summit's four key perspectives.
Bringing together diverse perspectives from policy, healthcare practice, research, and patient advocacy, these Policy Action Labs will draw on international experiences and develop actionable recommendations that governments, healthcare organisations, and other stakeholders can adapt and take forward to advance safer, high-value care across different health system contexts.
The four Policy Action Labs will run concurrently, each focusing on a distinct policy area:
Governing Safe Innovation for Value: Enabling the responsible adoption of AI and digital health technologies while safeguarding patient safety, accountability and public trust.
Measuring What Matters: Strengthening the measurement of patient safety, outcomes and value to inform policy and health system improvement.
Learning from Harm: Improving the detection, reporting and learning from technology-related patient safety incidents, including accountability for harm.
Leading for Safer Care: Strengthening leadership, workforce capabilities and organisational cultures that support sustained patient safety improvement.
The Summit will culminate in a Ministerial Declaration, providing a shared basis for governments to strengthen patient safety and guide responsible healthcare transformation.