P0257 - My efforts and actions in making my treatment for mentall illness safer for me

Abstract

Patient safety of mentally ill can be endangered everywhere: in hospital, community, at home/family. There are lots of problems surrounding the mentally ill patient's safety during the treatment: Lower quality of medical services because of mental patients stigma& discrimination, Lack of compliance in therapeutic process which causes unsafe situations (refusal of medication, wrong medication or dose), Medical mistakes in treatment related to the fact that mental patients physical illness is often disregarded and neglected, Low awareness about side effects of psychiatric medication, Patients with severe/chronic mental illness can be easily misused or manipulated.

The authors are showing the story of a mentally ill patient and problems with patient safety in his medical treatment, around the issues of Patients engagement, Openness/ Honesty/Disclosure, Partnerships, Networking with various organizations and especially with the NGOs for human rights of mentally ill and at the end the action of the World Alliance for Patient Safety Workstands.

Authors are describing several activities conducted: Raising awareness about patient safety in mental field, Partnership of all key players (experts, professionals, families, patients), Education of patient advocates and patient for patient safety champions, Dissemination of good practice and solutions to prevent medical errors and improve patients safety, Learning from experience of mental patients (patient is an expert of his own experience, he is in a center of health care system and should be seen as a compass, conscience, teacher, catalyst and witness), Changing of European mental health policy to cover care of both physical and mental health.