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St. Paul’s Renal Program: Finding the story behind the numbers with BC PSLS Analytics

Patients with kidneys that no longer function properly receive regular hemodialysis to filter wastes, salts and fluids from their blood. The St. Paul’s Hospital Renal Program is the largest in BC – it houses a 46-station hemodialysis unit that serves 300 patients, on...

Providence Crosstown Clinic: Experiences of a safe injection facility in the Downtown Eastside

The idea of providing safe injection sites for people with active substance use has been a central discussion in Canadian public health policy and social politics. The intent of healthcare organziations actually providing the drug has proved even more challenging....

New lab test protocol improves safety for kids in Surrey’s Pediatric Emergency

Imagine, for a moment, a very sick child who arrives at Emergency in need of urgent care. The healthcare team does what they can to keep the child safe and comfortable as they anxiously await the lab test results – a critical step in determining the most appropriate...

Never Events for Hospital Care in Canada

Providing safe healthcare is a continual and evolving process that requires input and collaboration by everyone in the system. As a country, we have not pursued agreement on a list of "never events" – until now. Never events are patient safety incidents that result in...

Taking the pressure off! How Burnaby Hospital achieved remarkable improvements with pressure ulcer incidence

Hospitals can effectively reduce the occurrence of pressure ulcers and lessen patient harm by having a focused approach and engagement from staff. We’re proud to share this patient safety success story from Burnaby Hospital where the incidence of pressure ulcers has...

BC PSLS launches improvements for Handlers

Yesterday (August 26th) BC PSLS underwent a significant upgrade so we could offer several new features and enhancements to BC PSLS Handlers. We take pride in making BC PSLS the best it can be for all our users and system upgrades, like the one we did yesterday, are...

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Mission & Vision

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.