Canadian Patient Safety Week 2025
World Patient Safety Day – September 17
This year’s theme, “Patient safety from the start!”, highlights the importance of ensuring safe care for every newborn and child. Acting early and consistently helps prevent harm and builds a stronger foundation for lifelong health.
Throughout our All Voices for Safer Care blog series, we’re sharing the stories of champions from across Canada who are helping redefine what safer care means today: from point of care to leadership, from lived experience to learning systems.
Learn more about World Patient Safety Day
New blogs in the All Voices for Safer Care series
Protecting mothers, babies and traditions: Delivering safer care through midwifery
Kenhtè:ke Midwives honour traditions, foster trust and support individual needs — ensuring each birth is safe, respectful and centred on the whole person.
All voices, lasting impact: Sparking change for safer long-term care
At Yucalta Lodge and The Pines, person-centred care led to a significant reduction in antipsychotic use and sparked a ripple effect that engaged teams, lifted residents’ spirits and created lasting improvements in care.
What lived experience teaches care: The story of Vincent Dumez
“I am first and foremost a patient. An old patient.” Vincent Dumez shares how safety is not declared but woven into care through dialogue, shared knowledge and partnership.
Read and share these stories to raise awareness of how all voices contribute to safer care.
