Musaitir, head of the Ministry of Health's Legal Department, has said the ministry is using hospital “dashboard” systems to follow up the work of the technical committees it set up at every medical establishment to detect medical errors. The dashboard system, Al-Musaitir said, will “improve the quality of health care services and help stop the occurrence of medical errors”. “The ministry has set out 20 procedures to curb medical errors,” Al-Musaitir said. “These include requiring all health care staff to register at the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, making Continuing Medical Education mandatory for re-registration, and requiring all medical staff to take training in clinical skills.” Other moves include programs on the detection of serious reportable events and performance assessment and clinical review, and new procedures for treatment protocols and rules of Evidence-Based Medicine, as well as the creation of quality control committees at the ministry and its Health Affairs directorates. Al-Musaitir further cited a performance-indicator program, new committees for the examination and approval of physicians' qualifications and expertise, anti-infection support programs and skills improvement in hospitals, improvements to health awareness programs in and outside hospitals, and new expert-run assessment programs for clinical and non-clinical departments. “There are also programs to improve the skills of nurses and to recruit nurses from medically advanced countries, as well as plans to introduce patient-satisfaction assessment programs,” Al
