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...

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...

World Patient Safety Day – Sept 17, 2026“Safe Care for Life” Lived Experiences of Patients/Families Who Live with Chronic Disease/Condition Melvin Swan “How can one heal if you are too busy fighting.” WATCH ON YOUTUBE Eileen and Daniel “What is worse than this illness is having a doctor that doesn’t understand and acknowledge it” Read the story