Across Europe, healthcare systems are facing shared and growing vulnerabilities — including workforce fatigue and shortages, gaps in crisis preparedness, financial pressure and increasing complexity of care. These systemic pressures directly affect patient safety and clinical outcomes. 

 

Over the past five years, through conferences and multi-stakeholder dialogue organised across Europe by the European Patient Safety Foundation, a clear pattern has emerged: preventable harm is rarely the result of isolated clinical errors alone. It is shaped by governance structures, workforce wellbeing, leadership culture, digital reliability and the overall resilience of healthcare systems.

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In response, the EUPSF and its affiliates have initiated a collaborative developement of a European Strategy for Safe and Resilient Healthcare Systems. Built on practical experience and cross-country exchange, the strategy moves beyond fragmented safety initiatives towards a coherent, system-based framework addressing the structural risk factors that influence daily practice. 

 

This conference marks the transition from strategy to implementation and practice. Through structured panels, peer dialogue and contributions from affiliated organisations and invited experts, participants will examine how the strategy’s key pillars — governance, workforce wellbeing and empowerment, innovation design and implementation, learning culture and leadership, and patient involvement — can be translated into concrete actions at institutional, national and European level. 

 

By bringing together healthcare professionals, hospital leaders, policymakers, researchers, insurers, industry representatives and national patient safety platforms, the conference aims to foster alignment, strengthen coordinated efforts and support a more proactive and resilient approach to patient safety

across Europe.

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Date: 4 December 2026

Place: Brussels, Belgium​​