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CPSW

CPSW 2024

PATIENTS FOR PATIENT SAFETY CANADA

We are the voice of the patient and bring our healthcare experiences to help improve patient safety at all levels in the health system.

Our unique and valuable perspective complements those of care providers, health leaders, policy makers, and managers of healthcare organizations and by working in partnership we help patient safety decisions and initiatives be truly patient-centred and result in safe care.

CPSW

CPSW 2024

PATIENTS FOR PATIENT SAFETY CANADA

We are the voice of the patient and bring our healthcare experiences to help improve patient safety at all levels in the health system.

Our unique and valuable perspective complements those of care providers, health leaders, policy makers, and managers of healthcare organizations and by working in partnership we help patient safety decisions and initiatives be truly patient-centred and result in safe care.

Every Patient Safe

Vision

Every Patient Safe

Mission

We champion the patient voice to advance safe healthcare

Vision

Every Patient Safe

Mission

We champion the patient voice to advance safe healthcare

Patients for Patient Safety Canada

No one goes into our healthcare system expecting to be harmed. The sad truth is that approximately 1 in every 10 individuals is harmed in healthcare and 1 in 17 hospital stays in Canada involved at least one harmful event (a total of 146,000 in 2022-23). Over the next 30 years, it is expected that a patient safety incident will occur in Canada nearly every minute, and a resulting death nearly every 13 minutes – that is almost 30,000 preventable deaths each year according to this report.

Patients for Patients Safety Canada (PFPSC) is the collective voice of patients and families who experienced preventable healthcare harm. We are the only patient-led, Canadian organization dedicated solely to patient safety. We are the Canadian arm of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Patients for Patient Safety Global Network (PFPS) and recognized by WHO as a global leader.

For almost two decades, working in partnership, we have successfully shaped hundreds of patient safety resources, practices, programs, and policies including:   

Now, as an independent incorporated patient-led not-for-profit organization, we are ready and committed to make lasting change. With the rates of harm still increasing, our collective action is needed more than ever. Here is the roadmap guiding us towards our vision. 

What Our Members Do

Learn more about what we do and about becoming a member.

“Every time we tell our stories, every time someone takes something from them, it makes it a little better, a little safer for those who come behind us in the system.”
– Raeline McGrath, PFPSC Member

Get in touch to start making a difference today.

“In honor of those who have died, those left disabled, our loved ones today and the world’s children yet to be born, we will strive for excellence, so that all involved in healthcare are as safe as possible as soon as possible.”
– LONDON DECLARATION