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BC Emergency Health Services rolls out streamlined patient safety reporting process to enhance culture of safety
BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) has introduced an enhanced patient safety event reporting process as part of its ongoing commitment to foster a culture of safety. A number of exciting new operations have been put in place to support staff and leadership in...
Patient’s View Miniseries Part III: BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services
Part III of our four-part Patient’s View Miniseries focuses on BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services! In Parts I and II of this miniseries we shared how BC Women’s Hospital and BC Cancer Agency engaged Langara nursing students to implement Patient’s...
Patient’s View Miniseries Part II: BC Cancer Agency’s Vancouver Centre
Part II of our four-part Patient’s View Miniseries focuses on the BC Cancer Agency! The BC Cancer Agency's Vancouver Centre began engaging Langara nursing students in January 2017 to partner with patients and families in identifying quality and safety issues...
Patient’s View Miniseries Part I: BC Women’s Hospital
Welcome to the first installment of our four-part Patient’s View Miniseries! So many exciting things are happening around the province with BCPSLS Patient’s View. There are too many to fit them all into one blog post, so this fall we will feature a series of stories...
New specialty report form helps develop a clearer image of patient safety events involving medical imaging procedures
BCPSLS Central Office and Lower Mainland Medical Imaging (LMMI) are excited to announce the launch of a new specialized provincial form to support better reporting and learning from patient safety events involving medical imaging procedures! With millions of medical...
Trauma Services BC seeks to improve trauma care through provincial mortality review
Trauma Services BC has partnered with the BC Patient Safety & Learning System (BCPSLS) to launch a system-wide mortality review process aimed at reducing adverse outcomes and preventable deaths related to trauma cases across the province. Trauma Services BC is a...
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.