During general Meeting in Skopje were 21 participants from 18 countries from Eastern European and Asian countries. The meeting was divided in two parts: first one was country situation presentation in the field patients safety and the second one was work in groups for setting the priorities and realistic actions by region that could be taken toward those priorities.
All participants agree that for starting the process of patient safety improvement, the following priorities and challenges of patients involvement in the health policy process were identified: continuation of patients voice representation in Health Council, establishing two ways communications, health prevention educational programs, organizing media workshop for preparing media on the issues of raising awareness about patients matters, empower NGO- s to speak up with health authorities.
