Canadian Patient Safety Week (CPSW) is an annual campaign that brings people together around a shared goal: making healthcare safer for everyone.
Stay informed about CPSW!
About CPSW
This year’s theme, All Voices for Safer Care, is an invitation to listen more deeply, ask important questions, and take meaningful action — together. Safer care doesn’t happen by chance. It requires collective responsibility, courageous conversations, and systems that make space for every voice. Whether you deliver care, support a loved one, lead a team, or shape policy, your voice matters. This CPSW, we’re spotlighting stories, tools and partnerships that help us move from awareness to action. Because safer care starts when we all step in.
CPSW Spotlight Series
Join us for a special edition of the Spotlight Series, guided by this year’s CPSW theme. These webinars will explore how safety is shaped not only by systems and policies, but also by the voices of those delivering, receiving and supporting care.
Celebrating Everyday Safety Acts
Recognize, share and celebrate actions that make care safer with everyone involved in delivering or receiving care.
Related opportunity: Join the Right Care Challenge
Join the Right Care Challenge to complete the Everyday Safety Acts activity card for a chance to win a monetary award. Plus, access more award opportunities and support to help implement and sustain improvements that improve access to care and other areas that matters to you.
Related opportunity: Join the Right Care Challenge
Join the Right Care Challenge to complete the Everyday Safety Acts activity card for a chance to win a monetary award. Plus, access more award opportunities and support to help implement and sustain improvements that improve access to care and other areas that matters to you.
Bring CPSW to life in your setting
Download and share these printable resources to spark conversation, inspire action and highlight what safer care means to your teams and community.
All Voices for Safer Care poster
Help build awareness of CPSW with this printable poster.
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
“I see safer care in action when…” cards
Print and cut out these cards to highlight how people see safer care in action in your setting.
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
Safer Care in Action
During CPSW and beyond, join us in celebrating how people cross Canada are making care safer, in big and small ways. Whether you’re a patient, caregiver, provider, leader or community member, your actions matter.
All Voices for Safer Care Blog Series
From Hospital Hallways to Safer Spaces: Providing Comfort and Promoting Dignity for People Experiencing Homelessness
Many palliative care models don’t meet the needs of people experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity, where barriers to diagnosis and treatment often turn preventable conditions into life-threatening ones.
Rebuilding trust: Martin Beaumont’s journey of reconciliation
Sometimes an event doesn’t just disrupt a system. It changes how we see it, and we cannot forget. For Martin Beaumont, President and CEO of CHU de Québec – Université Laval and a board member of Healthcare Excellence Canada, the death of Joyce Echaquan was such a moment.
All Voices, Lasting Impact: Sparking Change for Safer Long-Term Care
As the healthcare system across the country continues to face pressing challenges such as staff shortages and administrative burden, leaders and healthcare teams are often left with limited resources to devote to quality improvement and safety initiatives.
Protecting mothers, babies and traditions: Delivering safer care through midwifery
Kenhtè:ke Midwives serves all interested First Nations, Inuit and Métis families on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory and surrounding areas, providing full-scope midwifery care grounded in cultural traditions and community connection.
What lived experience teaches care: The journey of Vincent Dumez
“I am first and foremost a patient. An old patient.”
This is how Vincent Dumez introduces himself, even after a life devoted to championing causes, sharing lived wisdom and shouldering many responsibilities.
Partner Events
Looking for more ways to engage with Canadian Patient Safety Week 2025?
Organizations across the country are hosting their own events and activities to shine a spotlight on safer care. Explore the many opportunities to join the conversation and get inspired by what’s happening from coast to coast to coast.
Taking multiple medications? 5 questions to ask
October 29, 2025
Learn essential questions to ask to ensure all your medications are still necessary and helping you! This webinar is organized by the Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network, in partnership with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada, deprescribing.org and Canada’s Drug Agency.
Advancing Patient Safety in BC
October 29, 2025
In this webinar, Health Quality BC (HQBC) will explore the ongoing and emerging work to strengthen patient safety across British Columbia. You’ll gain insights into the latest evidence, current priorities and learn more about HQBC’s vision for safer care.
A Global Perspective on Emerging Opportunities to Advance Patient Safety
October 29, 2025
Join a conversation with four global leaders in patient safety to hear the latest evidence and what they each see as the pressing issues and opportunities facing global health care systems today. This webinar is hosted by Health Quality BC.
A Global Perspective on Emerging Opportunities to Advance Patient Safety
October 30, 2025
This session will showcase three projects from BC that have accomplished measurable improvements and learnings in patient safety. Learn how each initiative used innovative approaches to strengthen care for patients, families and care teams. This webinar is hosted by Health Quality BC.
CPSW Communications Guide: Share, Engage, Connect
We’ve created a toolkit to help you showcase your local CPSW events, to help us spread the word about CPSW and to encourage people to participate. Access sample content and graphics to help promote your local CPSW activities.
I see safer care in action when…
“Patients feel they are part of the care rather than care happening to them.”
- Allied Healthcare Provider (Ontario)
“Patients feel they are part of the care rather than care happening to them.”
- Allied Healthcare Provider (Ontario)
“Patients, families, and care teams work together in partnership – when voices are heard, communication is clear, and decisions are made with compassion and respect. It’s in the small moments of listening, the transparency of shared information, and the courage to speak up that trust is built and safety thrives.”
- Patient Advisor (Ontario)
“Patients, families, and care teams work together in partnership – when voices are heard, communication is clear, and decisions are made with compassion and respect. It’s in the small moments of listening, the transparency of shared information, and the courage to speak up that trust is built and safety thrives.”
- Patient Advisor (Ontario)
“Everyone feels safe to ask questions.”
- Administrator (Manitoba)
“Everyone feels safe to ask questions.”
- Administrator (Manitoba)
“Care providers acknowledge and address systemic barriers, tailor services to meet the cultural and historical realities of different communities and create space for community voices in decision-making.”
- Consultant (Nova Scotia)
“Care providers acknowledge and address systemic barriers, tailor services to meet the cultural and historical realities of different communities and create space for community voices in decision-making.”
- Practical Nursing Student (British Columbia)
“When we actively listen to the needs and concerns of patients and families.”
- Administrator (Prince Edward Island)
“When we actively listen to the needs and concerns of patients and families.”
- Administrator (Prince Edward Island)
“Everyone has a voice.”
- Quality Improvement Lead (Manitoba)
“Everyone has a voice.”
- Quality Improvement Lead (Manitoba)
“I am informed of each step of my care, when I am seen and heard as an expert in my care, when staff see me as more than a burden to the system as a person living with complex care needs.”
- Patient Advisor (Saskatchewan)
“I am informed of each step of my care, when I am seen and heard as an expert in my care, when staff see me as more than a burden to the system as a person living with complex care needs.”
- Patient Advisor (Saskatchewan)
“I see staff taking extra time and educating patients and their families and caregivers on what to expect during their visit and after their visit and really taking the time to ensure they understand their care plan. I see safer care in action when I see a patient's emotional wellbeing considered in their care plan not just their physical or health condition.”
- Clinical Safety Coordinator (Alberta)
“I see staff taking extra time and educating patients and their families and caregivers on what to expect during their visit and after their visit and really taking the time to ensure they understand their care plan. I see safer care in action when I see a patient's emotional wellbeing considered in their care plan not just their physical or health condition.”
- Clinical Safety Coordinator (Alberta)
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