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World Patient Safety Day
World Patient Safety Day
This percentage of deaths worldwide are attributed to noncommunicable diseases, making them the central focus of World Patient Safety Day 2026
What is 74%
This type of Pharmacovigilance data must be reported even if no adverse event occurs — it covers any Sanofi drug taken during this condition
What is exposure during pregnancy (or whilst breastfeeding)?
In addition to pharmacovigilance responsibilities, the Nordic PV teams also host this service
What is the Medical Information (Med Info) Service?
This acronym refers to a communication intervention where important safety information is delivered directly to individual healthcare professionals by a marketing authorization holder or a competent authority.
What is a DHPC (Direct Healthcare Professional Communication)?
All PV data — both serious and non-serious — must be reported to the local PV department within this timeframe from the moment a Sanofi employee becomes aware of the information.
What is 1 working day?
This fraction of patients is harmed during healthcare globally, with around half of this harm being considered preventable.
What is 1 in 10
When a healthcare professional intentionally prescribes a medicinal product in a way that is not in accordance with the authorized product information, it is classified as this type of special situation.
What is off-label use?
In the NE PV team we had the pleasure of welcoming 3 of these in 2026
What is babies
These two common types of educational materials are classic examples of aRMM, designed to inform patients and healthcare professionals about identified risks of a product.
What are patient cards/guides and HCP guides?
The word is composed of two parts: a Greek word meaning "drug"( Pharmakon) and this Latin word meaning "keep watch" (Vigilare).
What is Pharmacovigilance
These four main types of long-term conditions are classified as Noncommunicable Diseases and include cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes, and this fourth category.
What are chronic respiratory diseases?
This special situation occurs when a patient uses a medicinal product in a way which is not recommended in the Summary of Products Characteristics (SPC)
What is misuse?
If you gathered every PV and MI colleague from across the entire North Europe cluster into one room, this is how many chairs you would need.
What is 27?
These interventions go beyond the standard product label and are specifically designed to to prevent or reduce identified or potential risks.
What are additional Risk Minimization Measures (aRMMs)?
PSPV is the abbreviation for this Sanofi department that monitors medicine safety and manages adverse event reporting.
What is Patient Safety & Pharmacovigilance?
Up to this fraction of patients with this specific Noncommunicable Disease experience adverse events during their care, highlighting the particular vulnerability of this patient group.
What is 1 in 3 cancer patients?
This type of exposure occurs during professional activity — for example, when a vial of Sarclisa breaks in a nurse's hands and the liquid ends up on her skin.
What is occupational exposure?
The NE PV cluster spans 8 country groups across Northern Europe — Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and this one. Hint: it's not a Scandinavian country, but it IS famous for Bicycles, Cheese, and tulips!
What is the Netherlands?
This Sanofi internal PSPV tool is used by the Country PV to track aRMMs under the electronic Risk Management Plan.
What is Calip?
These four minimum elements are required to make a spontaneous adverse event report valid for submission: patient information, product information, and event information — plus this fourth essential element.
What is reporter information?
This three-word slogan for World Patient Safety Day 2026 emphasizes the need for continuous safety throughout chronic disease management.
What is "Safe care for life!"?
Defined as persistent or sporadic, intentional excessive use of medicinal products accompanied by harmful physical or psychological effects — a patient taking 3 tablets of a drug every night instead of 1 as prescribed is an example.
What is drug abuse?
For most people it's their birthday or Christmas — but for the NE PV team, THIS date in September is the most celebrated day of the year, dedicated entirely to keeping patients safe worldwide.
What is September 17th (World Patient Safety Day)?
This cross-functional collaboration between Medical, Regulatory Affairs, and PV ensures that educational risk materials are locally adapted and distributed — each function holds its own defined responsibility in the process.
What is the Cross-functional team
A patient reports a headache after taking their medication. This is the term for any unintended response to a medicine at any dose."
What is an adverse event (AE)?