Objectives:

To ascertain the current situation in Spain, both at the level of the Ministry of Health and the autonomous communities, with regard to the policies on patient safety and pressure injuries available to healthcare professionals and patients published on institutional websites.

Methodology:

Systematic review of the websites of both the Ministry of Health and the different departments of health of the autonomous communities of Spain.

Results:

In all the Autonomous Communities, except one, reference is made to pressure injuries as a patient safety problem. In the plans developed or adapted by the Autonomous Community in the field of patient safety, few communities refer to specific indicators on pressure injuries in their guidelines and protocols. Both the strategy of the Ministry of Health and the majority of the strategies of each autonomous community involve patients and relatives in patient safety. All autonomous communities have adverse event reporting systems.

Conclusions:

There is a clear declaration of intentions on the part of those responsible for quality and patient safety, but without the existence of specific protocols, updated and adapted to the contexts in which they are developed, and without indicators which allow the results to be measured.

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