The Role of the Risk Manager in Patient Safety: The Delphi Method

With great admiration and trust in the columns of your journal, | would like to bring to your kind attention the initiative that the Scientific Association Hospital & Clinical Risk Managers - HCRM, an association registered in the AgeNaS National Observatory of Good Practices on Health Safety, in the first months of 2022, together with the Lombard Academy of Public Health, it questioned the role of Risk Managers in Patient Safety by applying the Delphi methodology. The purpose of this investigation was to turn the spotlight on the role of the Risk Manager since, during the bloodiest phases of the Covid-19 pandemic, more importance was given to the role of the RSPP - Head of the Prevention and Protection Service ( in compliance with the provisions of Legislative Decree 891/2008 Consolidated Text on Worker Safety) to protect safety in the workplace, emphasizing an inequality between the safety of operators and that of patients, not valuing the role of the Risk Manager equally.