As healthcare demands grow, clinicians are under increasing pressure to deliver safe, effective care, often with limited time and resources. The Clinician of the Future 2025 report revealed that 28% of clinicians think they don’t have time to deliver care and 69% stating they are seeing more patients now than they were two years ago, Almost half (46%) also state that tiredness has impaired their ability to treat patients effectively. . Below, clinical leaders share their perspectives on how trusted knowledge and collaborative care can help protect children and elevate safety standards for every patient.
World Patient Safety Day
Patient safety from the start - Advancing care for every child, together.
World Patient Safety Day 2025 provides an opportunity to spotlight the importance of safe care for every newborn and young child. This year’s theme, “Patient safety from the start!”, calls for early, consistent, and collaborative action to prevent harm and improve lifelong health outcomes.
We have partnered with leading experts, to explore how evidence-based knowledge and digital tools support confident decision-making and better outcomes for children.
Elsevier and the healthcare communities we support expand the possibilities of human progress for the benefit of every patient.
Recent years have placed extraordinary demands on healthcare professionals. As clinicians navigate evolving evidence and complex workflows, the burden of unsafe care continues to impact the most vulnerable: newborns and young children.
This year’s World Patient Safety Day theme, “Patient safety from the start!”, calls for early and consistent safety measures to prevent harm and lay the foundation for lifelong health. At Elsevier, we help advance science and healthcare to advance human progress. By providing trusted clinical content, mission-critical insights, and innovative technologies, we empower healthcare professionals to deliver safer, more effective care from the very first moment.
Hussain Jafri, CEO, World Patient Safety Alliance
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Insights from Hussain Jafri, CEO of the World Patient Safety Alliance on advancing patient safety in childhood care through improved education.
"Infants, children, and adolescents are uniquely vulnerable to medical errors. Their ever-changing age, size, and developmental stages pose challenges in accurate diagnosis and effective management. Utilizing trusted resources is vital to ensure the safest and most effective care for even our tiniest patients. As our medical understanding grows and the tools we use evolve, so too must our commitment to continuously improving clinical practice. Because every patient, at every age, deserves the highest standard of medical safety."
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Elisabeth Scheufele, MD, MS
Physician Clinical Executive at Elsevier
"On World Patient Safety Day, we unite around a shared commitment: to protect our youngest patients through trusted information, collaborative care, and unwavering focus on safety. At Elsevier, the principles of patient safety guide everything we do, from advancing health literacy among children to supporting clinical decision-making. Patient safety is a shared responsibility that demands continuous focus and collaboration. Together, we can create safer care for children and co-create a safer future for generations to come, because every child deserves to be protected and heard in every healthcare moment. "
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Laís Junqueira
Quality, Patient Safety and Innovation Manager at Elsevier
Discover practical tools, expert insights, and trusted content designed to help empower healthcare professionals and caregivers to deliver safer care for children, from the very first moment.
On-Demand Learning
Watch now: Advancing Patient Safety
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Watch our Advancing Patient Safety roundtable to discover how leading hospitals are transforming care through innovative nursing development and patient education strategies that drive safer outcomes.
Watch now: Pediatric Safety in Practice
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Learn about how better education drives safer outcomes in pediatric care from practicing nurses and clinical executives at Elsevier.
Perspectives on Zero Harm in the Middle East
Elsevier and Joint Commission International have teamed up once again to accelerate the path to Zero Harm, this time focusing on the Middle East.
We launched this new initiative in 2023 by carrying out a survey about the Zero Harm objective throughout the Middle East. The aim of this survey was to promote a variety of discussions and resources that help healthcare professionals evaluate and make changes to continue improving patient safety and quality of care.
Our engagement team is working with organizations around the world to bring patient safety and zero harm workshops for clinicians, please reach out here to learn more.
