World Patient Safety Day 2025

World Patient Safety Day is an annual global platform to raise public awareness of patient safety, promote stakeholder collaboration, and mobilize global action for improvement. In 2025, it focuses on the most vulnerable group in healthcare: newborns and children.

Theme of World Patient Safety Day 2025 

This year’s core theme is "Safe care for every newborn and every child," with the slogan"Patient safety from the start!"—a recognition of newborns’ and children’s vulnerability (immature development, weak resistance, limited expression ability) to harm from unsafe care. Safety in every medical link is the basic guarantee for their life and health.

The World Health Organization (WHO) calls for urgent action to eliminate avoidable harm in paediatric and newborn care, building on previous campaigns (e.g., "safe childbirth," "medication safety," "diagnostic safety"). This 2025 focus aims to fill safety gaps in this field and reaffirm every child’s right to safe, quality care.

Celebrate World Patient Day with Periodmed

Periodmed life monitoring systems – designed specifically for newborns with ultra-sensitive sensors that track vital signs like ECG, NIBP, heart rate, respiratory rate, SpO2, and even subtle temperature fluctuations in real time – have emerged as a critical tool to address this: they turn invisible risks into timely, accurate alerts, ensuring safety is embedded in every step of newborn care, from neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to community health centers. 

Core Objectives of World Patient Safety Day

Raise global awareness of safety risks: Break healthcare barriers to make the public, medical staff, and institutions in all settings aware of risks in paediatric/newborn care, and emphasize the specific needs of children, families, and caregivers.

Mobilize multi-stakeholder action: Call on governments (policy formulation, resource investment), healthcare organizations (process optimization, staff training), professional bodies (standard setting), and civil society (supervision, promotion) to develop sustainable strategies.

Empower parents, caregivers, and children: Promote safety education for parents/caregivers (master basic safety knowledge, participate in medical decision-making) and provide appropriate education for older children to enhance self-protection awareness.

Strengthen related research: Advocate for increased investment from the academic community, medical institutions, and funding agencies to study safety incident causes, prevention measures, and intervention effects, providing a scientific basis for improvement.

To advance these objectives, a series of activities will be held on/around September 17: national publicity campaigns (spreading safety knowledge via media), advocacy events (discussions and policy recommendations), and technical activities (training, case seminars).

A signature activity is the illumination of iconic landmarks and public places in orange—symbolizing care for newborns and children. This not only attracts public attention but also conveys a global message: safeguarding every newborn and child is a shared responsibility.

"Patient safety from the start!" is a promise to humanity’s future. On World Patient Safety Day 2025, let us work together to build a safer healthcare environment for every newborn and child.