Welcome to the Centre for Patient Safety
This video was showcased at the Annual Institute for Healthcare Improvement Conference in Orlando, Florida in 2010 as a part of a series profiling organizations doing innovative work in patient safety and quality improvement. The Centre was the only non-US organization spotlighted in the series and was chosen based on our work in building capacity and engaging faculty in patient safety efforts.
Centre for Patient Safety News
The 9th Annual Paediatric Patient Safety Symposium
Date: Thursday, June 13, 2013
Location: The Hospital for Sick Children, Daniels Hollywood Theatre
For more information and to register, please go to link.
SAVE the DATE for the 5th Annual UofT Centre for Patient Safety Symposium
Date: Thursday, October 10th, 2013
Location: Westin Harbour Castle
Keynote: Professor Charles Vincent
Charles Vincent trained and worked as an NHS clinical psychologist before beginning a research career. In 1995 he established the Clinical Risk Unit at University College where he was Professor of Psychology before moving to Imperial College in 2002. He is now Director of the Imperial Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality (CPSSQ) and the Clinical Safety Research Unit, which is based in the Department of Surgery and Cancer. He is the editor of Clinical Risk Management (BMJ Publications, 2nd edition, 2001) and author of Patient Safety (2nd edition 2010). From 1999 to 2003 he was a Commissioner on the UK Commission for Health Improvement. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and was recently reappointed as an NIHR Senior Investigator.
The Centre for Patient Safety has been awarded the
2010-2011 COLIN WOOLF AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN COURSE COORDINATION
for the 2010-2011 Certificate in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement.
Congratulations to Dr. Etchells and the rest of the planning committee.
©2012 Gustavo Toledo Photography.
Dr. Ed Etchells (Associate Director, U of T Centre for Patient Safety) on the leftandDr. Dimitri Anastakis (Interim Vice-Dean, Continuing Education & Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto) on the right.
Centre for Patient Safety in the News
Dr. Chris Parshuram, Director of Paediatric Patient Safety Research, Centre for Patient Safety is featured in the Vancouver Sun article:
Drug changes needed to improve dose accuracy for children
Read the article in the Vancouver Sun
Read the cited article in CMAJ
Centre Director, Dr. Kaveh Shojania,selected as Editor-in-Chief for
BMJ Quality & Safety (formerly Quality and Safety in Health Care)
http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/