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When patient safety reaches the tipping point: One hospital’s solution to treatment delays

When the new Abbotsford Regional Hospital & Cancer Centre (ARHCC) opened its doors to the Fraser Valley community in late 2008, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) experienced an increase in the volume of severely sick patients with complex health issues. As the new...

Praising the talents of our esteemed BC PSLS Coordinators!

There's something special happening across BC Health Authorities and that's the voices of BC PSLS Coordinators who tirelessly advocate for patient safety every day! In fact, without them, our connection to healthcare providers across the province would be much more...

Goodbye, black holes! Hello, bubbles! Part 2: Getting pushy with publications

By Guest Blogger: Darren Frizzell In follow-up to Part 1, which described how Bubble Charts help to identify potential black holes in a review process, here in Part 2 I’ll talk about our BC PSLS Analytics tools and how they can be used to retrieve meaningful data for...

Focus on Patient Care Quality

High quality patient care is central to sustaining a safe and reliable healthcare system. With this in mind, the Patient Care Quality Review Board introduced legislation in 2008, requiring all six BC Health Authorities to establish a Patient Care Quality Office...

Medical imaging safety – implementing a standardized approach across Island Health

In healthcare, medical imaging (MI) is the production of high-resolution images of the human body, and often involves expertise from a variety of medical professionals such as Radiologists, Technologists, Sonographers, Clerical, or Medical Physicists. Medical images...

Celebrating our patient safety stars!

Spreading the patient safety message among healthcare staff is no small task. Not to mention, influencing those staff to be enthusiastic about using an online safety event management tool in addition to an already busy day caring for patients. But, that’s exactly...

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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.