• Jesús Palacio Lapuente, María Dolores Martín Rodríguez, Carlos Aibar Remón, Juan José Jurado Balbuena, María Luisa Torijano Casalengua, and Rosa Añel Rodríguez.
• WONCA World Working Party on Quality and Safety on Family Medicine, Bruselas, Bélgica; Grupo de Trabajo de Seguridad del Paciente de semFYC. Electronic address: jepala@gmail.com.
• Aten Primaria. 2021 Dec 1; 53 Suppl 1: 102225.

AbstractThe health system failed to guarantee the safety of both professionals and citizens who came to the centers at the beginning of the pandemic. The lack of materials and guidelines for the prevention of infections caused in Spain the worst catastrophe in the history of patient safety and occupational health in healthcare. It also happened in other countries but Spain had the highest rates of infected health workers in the world. It was a largely avoidable event. We review what measures have been taken to prevent infections in primary care centers, such as hand hygiene, masks and personal protection material or the maintenance of social distance, among others. We update the recommendations and raise the perspectives in a situation that requires flexibility and adaptability to maintain quality and safe care.Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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