Sharing stories. Connecting people. Making healthcare safer.
New Fraser Health safety video: A powerful message for healthcare staff
Fraser Health Communications and Public Affairs collaborated with Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Eagle Ridge Hospital and clinical nurse educators to develop a touching and effective video that demonstrates how being mindful is our best defence against events...
Preventing pressure ulcers: Keeping the pressure on to take the pressure off! – Part 2
Since the new Pressure Ulcer (PU) report form was launched across the province last February as part of the Let’s take the pressure off! campaign, we’re seeing evidence that awareness of this important patient safety issue is growing across BC. BC PSLS data shows a...
From building a culture of patient safety to accreditation: The BCEHS journey continues!
When BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) set a plan in motion to revitalize their approach to patient safety, the province saw how important it is for an organization to mobilize and build a safety culture from the ground up. Through a highly coordinated effort,...
Patient’s View: Seeing safety through the eyes of families at BC Children’s Hospital
Patients and their families or caregivers are often an untapped resource when it comes to identifying opportunities to improve quality of care and patient safety. But at BC Children’s Hospital an innovative face-to-face patient/provider engagement tool...
Surgery, patient safety and the future of healthcare: A conversation with Dr. Peter Blair
Dr. Peter Blair is the Program Medical Director of Surgical Services at Fraser Health and a surgeon for over 30 years. During our conversation, Dr. Blair described how Fraser Health was able to reduce surgical wait lists by broadening their surgical services to more...
What’s happening at Central Office? A peek at our plans for 2015
Communicating and working with others are key values for BC PSLS and foundational elements of our strategic priorities. As leaders in the area of patient safety reporting and learning, we’re often approached by others doing similar work and asked to share our...
Mission & Vision
Our vision is: Safe health care for BC: No needless harm.
Who We Are
BC Patient Safety Learning System (BCPSLS) is a cloud-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.
What We Do
350-400 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 two 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.