Safer primary care for all: a global imperative

2is intended to help redress this imbalance by signifying WHO’s intention to stimulate international action to support the delivery of safer primary care. This begs the question of why, more than a decade after the issue was raised, so little progress has been made in primary care. 3 This situation can partly be explained by the fact that the fi ndings from original studies showing the high frequency of medical errors and associated morbidity were all undertaken in hospital settings. 4 These landmark epidemiological investigations fi rst alerted the international community to key areas of concern in hospital care provision and resulted in a range of government-backed policy and research initiatives, 5