Patient Safety in healthcare is about Identifying what works – effective practice, Ensuring that the patient gets it ‐ appropriate use and Delivering care flawlessly – no errors. Further more, there should be no needless deaths, no needless delays, no waste, no needless pain or suffering and no helplessness.

What are Health care Errors?  They include Failure to diagnose or incorrect diagnosis, Failure to provide adequate observation, Failure to utilize or act on diagnostic test, Use of inappropriate or outmoded diagnostic test, or procedure, Failure to provide follow‐up, Medication error or adverse drug event, Wrong‐site surgery; surgical error,  Transfusion error.

Key issues in Patient Safety requires responsibility for leadership to create environment that  encourages error identification and remedial steps to reduce risk of future recurrences, and minimizes individual blame or retribution for the involved staff and for the reporter, Organizational engagement in proactive systems analysis as an error  revention strategy.