ERASMUS+ Programme –Key Action 2: Strategic partnership Agreement number 2014-1-UK01-KA203-001629 TRAINING HEALTH CARE TEAMS IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND PATIENT SAFETY (IENE 5)Strategic Partnership Agreement • November 29th, 2016
Contract Type FiledNovember 29th, 2016This project addresses the complex issue of patient safety, failure of which results in millions of patient safety incidents each year, with severe consequences and unnecessary suffering for patients and their families as well as millions of public Euro in compensation. This project shines the spotlight on a key cause for unsafe patient care that of failure of effective intercultural communication among the members of multidisciplinary/multicultural healthcare teams (MMHTs). It builds on the IENE projects (1-4) (www.ieneproject.eu) by addressing the link between the levels of intercultural communication within members of MMHTs and patient safety and aims to increase the knowledge and skills of members of healthcare teams, in three major areas: Intercultural communication, working in multicultural teams and Patient safety.