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Canadian Patient Safety Week 2026

What Shapes Safer Care? Canadian SafetyPatient Week 2026 Oct. 26-30 What Shapes Safer Care?Canadian Patient Safety Week 2026 Canadian Patient Safety Week (CPSW) is an annual campaign organized by Healthcare Excellence Canada that brings people together around a shared goal: making healthcare safer for everyone. The theme of CPSW this year is “What shapes safer care?”. This year’s theme aligns well with the Patients for Patient Safety Canada vision of “Every patient safe.” Below are the thoughts and lived experiences of Patients for...

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Hina Laeeque

Executive director, Patients for Patient Safety Canada Hina Laeeque, MSc, CHE Hina Laeeque is a healthcare leader with nearly two decades of experience advancing patient safety, healthcare improvement, policy, and system-level change across Canada. Prior to joining Patients for Patient Safety Canada as Executive Director, Hina held leadership roles with the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and Healthcare Excellence Canada, where she led complex pan-Canadian initiatives involving patients and families, healthcare organizations, governments, researchers, and health system leaders. ...

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Diane Aubin

Board Member, Patients for Patient Safety Canada Diane Aubin Diane was first associated with Patients for Patient Safety Canada in 2010 through her work at the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) leading their research program and the development of the disclosure guidelines and other key resources. At the time, she was also working on her PhD thesis about the psychology of errors in healthcare. Upon graduation, she was hired by the Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR), eventually becoming Executive Director for the province of Alberta. She continued to work in collaboration...

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Donna Davis

Board Member, Patients for Patient Safety Canada Donna Davis As a founding member of Patients for Patient Safety Canada this dedicated leader brings a unique blend of clinical experience, entrepreneurial insight and deeply personal advocacy to the Board Of Directors. A retired nurse and business owner, she served as the organization’s Co-chair for 8 years during the formative era, shaping PFPSC’s foundation and cementing its role as a pivotal national advocate for patient-centered safety. Her profound commitment to safety is driven by the tragic loss of her 19 year old son to...

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The View from Here – What patients and families need after a harmful incident 

The View From Here The View From Here is a series of patient-informed resources that explores how patients, families, healthcare workers, and leaders can communicate openly, honestly, and compassionately following a patient safety incident. Developed from the lived experiences of harmed patients and families, these resources support healing, learning, and safer care for everyone involved. Advice for Leaders After a Patient Safety Incident Guidance from harmed patients and families on how healthcare leaders can respond with transparency, empathy, communication, and...

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WPSD 2026 Information

World Health Organization (WHO) – World Patient Safety Day 2026 ‘Safe care for people who have noncommunicable diseases’ To strengthen and advance patient safety for people living with chronic conditions, it is fundamental to recognize lived experience as a form of expertise and see people as active partners in safe care rather than passive patients. A people-centred approach to safe care focuses on a person’s comprehensive wellbeing rather than on traditional disease management alone. This requires medical models and treatment plans that are tailored to the realities of people’s...

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