The National Patient Safety Consortium is pleased to present that 94% of Consortium actions are complete as of March 31, 2018. The Steering Committee met on May 2018 and has fulfilled its mandate to provide overall leadership and direction to the Consortium and Integrated Patient Safety Action Plan. The final Consortium meeting was also held in October 2017. Actions that will continue over the next fiscal year in collaboration with partners are:
A key focus of CPSI's future strategy is strengthened alliances with patients, governments, and other partners to influence levers for change in the system such as policy, standards and regulations. The interim evaluation findings also recommended evolving the structure of the Consortium to consider specific roles of Federal/Provincial/Territorial (FPT) partners and translating the evidence from the Action Plan outputs as they relate to the need for strengthened policy, measurement and standards.
As key mechanisms to strengthen commitment for patient safety, CPSI with Health Standards Organization (HSO) has convened a new Canadian Quality and Patient Safety Advisory Committee. CPSI will also convene a new FPT Government Network. The purpose of the FPT Government Network is to promote national alignment on patient safety priorities. This will be done through strategic interactions with FPT policy makers as well as broadly disseminating the key learnings from the Integrated Patient Safety Action Plan.
