Canadian Patient Safety Week
October 27 – 31, 2025 | All Voices for Safer Care
Provincial Shared Health, Prairie Mountain Health and all Healthcare Organizations across Manitoba are working together in promoting Canadian Patient Safety Week.
This year’s national theme is an invitation to listen more deeply, ask important questions and take meaningful action – together. This includes all voices in making care safer; voices of patients, clients, families, the public (our future patients/clients) and all healthcare team members.
Recent data shows that in 1 in 17 hospital stays involved at least one harmful event. This data is only for acute care services.
In the past, patient safety efforts have been focused on potentially preventable physical harm. But healthcare harm can come in other forms, such as psychological, spiritual and social harm. Despite best efforts, rates of patient harm are not decreasing. Partnering with patients, families, communities and the public to learn and work together is important to strengthen safe care. Learn more at Healthcare Excellence Canada’s Spotlight Series page (Canadian Patient Safety Week)
Did you know? Many Manitobans wonder about what questions to ask?
Some patients, clients and residents may be worried about how their healthcare team will respond to questions. Comfort level with asking questions of healthcare team members may be affected by:
- How they have been treated in the past while asking questions
- Relationship with their healthcare provider
- Experiences of trauma, systemic racism and/or stigma
- Health literacy (a person’s understanding of their health, finding information about their health needs and using it to make health decisions)
It’s Safe to Ask is a resource for patients, clients, residents and their families on how to ask questions about their health and fully participate in their plan of care.
Events:
Access Canadian Patient Safety Week Activities on the Patient Safety Week – Shared Health – Health Providers page.
- Tuesday Oct 28 – 12:00-1:00pm Have your lunch and Learn in collaboration with CHI
- Tuesday Oct 28 – 11:00-12:30pm Live Webinar – From Awareness to Action: Beyond Harm, Toward Safer Care (English- with French translation available)
- Wednesday Oct 29 11:00-12:00pm Live Webinar – Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network – Taking multiple medications? 5 questions to ask
- Thursday Oct 30 – 11:00-12:30pm Live Webinar – From Awareness to Action: Beyond Harm, Toward Safer Care (French- with English translation available)
- Friday Oct 31 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm Live Webinar Shared Health Provincial Patient Safety Team It’s Safe to Ask
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This year, we are putting a spotlight on Manitoba’s It’s Safe to Ask resources.
Encourage Clients, Patients and Residents to Ask Questions about their Health, Medications, and Medical tests.
Learn more about Patient Safety Here: Patient Safety – Prairie Mountain Health or Patient Safety – Shared Health