Updates

Save the date! Canadian Patient Safety Week (CPSW) returns October 28 to November 1, 2024 and our theme is What comes to mind when you think about healthcare harm? Let's broaden our understanding together.

Disparities in health equity play a significant role in shaping health outcomes in Canada. This is especially true for individuals experiencing homelessness and precarious housing in Canada. Palliative care, a comprehensive approach that considers the whole person and facilitates quality-of-life care for individuals with serious life-limiting illnesses, is vital in these spaces. Unfortunately, people who experience homelessness often lack equitable access to palliative care.

Christine LaRocque will step into the newly created position of Vice-President, Organizational Performance and Corporate Services. HEC also welcomes Sutton Eaves as our new Executive Director, Communications and Marketing.

Canadian Patient Safety Week (CPSW) comes once a year, each autumn, to help improve patient safety across the country. If you work in healthcare, though, you know lasting change is not something that can be accomplished in just a few days. It requires ongoing effort—not to mention effective communication and teamwork.

Healthcare Excellence Canada is collaborating with the CMA to support the recipients of the Health Care Unburdened Grant and their initiatives to reduce the administrative burden in health care.

Healthcare Excellence Canada and Canadian Partnership Against Cancer support communities across Canada to improve access to palliative care.

Have you ever asked yourself, “Why do we do things this way?” Last fall, in conjunction with Canadian Patient Safety Week, teams from the Health Workforce Innovation Challenge were invited to reflect on this question through the Dinosaur Mini-Challenge. By “digging for dinosaurs” around their work practices, teams identified and worked to re-examine practices that no longer promote safety.

Healthcare Excellence Canada has invited 26 organizations across Canada to participate in its Enabling Aging in Place collaborative from January 2024 to September 2025.

HEC announced the 20 teams invited to participate in our Strengthening Primary Care program. The program is designed to improve access to safe, including culturally safe, team-based primary care closer to home and meet the unique needs of northern, rural and remote communities.