Change Day BC!
What drew you to healthcare? What ignites your passion? What step – big or small – could you take to make our system better for our patients and their families? Change Day BC is building on the successful global movement ignited by the National Health Service...
Interior Health: Engaging physicians in quality and safety (Part 2)
Physician engagement and leadership are essential to the pursuit of safe high-quality patient care. But often the challenge for healthcare organizations is understanding what strategies will work best to strengthen physicians' commitment to quality and safety...
Life-threatening near miss: Sharing lessons learned with BC care providers
A “near miss” (good catch/close call) is an opportunity to learn from what happened and make improvements to quality of care and patient safety across our healthcare system. The following case highlights the value of near miss reporting in BC PSLS and the importance...
ReAct: Protecting vulnerable adults from harm
Every day, there’s a vulnerable adult living in BC who suffers from abuse, neglect or self-neglect. The Adult Guardianship Act (Act) was enacted in February 2000 – with recent updates and changes that came into force on December 1, 2014 – to give designated agencies...
BC PSLS blog turns two!
Time sure flies…another year has passed and it’s time to celebrate our 2nd birthday! The BC PSLS blog has now reached nearly 40,000 visitors, which is three times last year’s numbers...wow! At the top of the list for Canadian visitors are BC, Ontario and...
Talking about blood! (Part 2)
In our first article about Transfusion Medicine (TM) safety we introduced the Transfusion Error Surveillance System, or “TESS," a national initiative led by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), and we described Island Health’s significant contribution to this...