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Richmond Hospital team develops key messages to help prevent adverse drug events

Adverse drug reactions can have serious consequences. Many of us became familiar with the impacts of adverse drug reactions when Vanessa’s Law regulations came into effect in 2019. But one team in BC had already been studying them for years. They considered the high...

Reporting adverse reactions following COVID-19 immunization

Many of us in health care have been encouraged to see vaccines for COVID-19 becoming available in BC, Canada, and around the world. It’s an exciting time—reinforced by senior officials who have stated that there is now a light at the end of the tunnel. But what...

Give yourself the gift of patient safety training

BCPSLS Central Office has a special gift for you, just in time for the holidays: three shiny, new courses focused on patient safety! We have revised our Patient Safety, Actions, and Reports courses on LearningHub. And we’re thrilled to announce that the courses will...

Got 30 minutes? Review our draft Patient Safety course and enter to win a $50 gift card

We’ve revised our online Patient Safety course and would like to know what you think of it! Long considered a kind of “Patient Safety 101”, our current course has been completed by over 9,000 health care staff and students since it was launched in 2014. Before we make...

Tackling technology-related safety incidents in community care

IT. HIT. HIM. Huh? Is this an emphatic description of someone having a sudden realization? Think again. These acronyms are becoming pretty common in our daily work in health care. Throw in an ACK, a CAT, and a SLIP, and you could have the beginning of a good story!...

BC first province in Canada to electronically transfer radiation treatment patient safety incident data to CIHI NSIR-RT

Don’t you love it when something you’ve been planning for years finally comes to fruition? BCPSLS has been looking forward to electronically submitting data to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) for inclusion in Canada’s National System for Incident...

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Our mission is: To make health care safer for all British Columbians by fostering a culture of safety, shared learning and continuous system improvement.

Our vision is: Safe health care for BC: No needless harm.

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Who We Are

BC Patient Safety & Learning System (BCPSLS) is a web-based tool used by approximately 100,000 health care providers across BC to report and learn about patient safety events, near misses and hazards. BCPSLS has fostered improvements in patient safety and quality of care in all health care settings since its inception in 2008.

Today, we are focused on streamlining data collection and output, enhancing learning across our health care system and improving the quality of our modules and tools.

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What We Do

Over 400 safety event reports are submitted to BCPSLS each day from across the province. This data is allowing us to identify safety concerns and target quality and safety improvements where they’re needed most. To date, over one million safety event reports are in the BCPSLS database. Data summaries provide a rich basis for learning and improvement to over 10,000 healthcare leaders across BC.