National Patient Safety Consortium: Learning from Large-Scale Collaboration

From 2014 to 2018, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute brought together key partners and established the National Patient Safety Consortium to drive a shared action plan for safer healthcare.With ongoing consensus development on key priorities, an unprecedented level of collaboration and shared leadership with diverse stakeholders and patients and families as full partners, the Consortium and its Integrated Patient Safety Action Plan built a culture of engagement and improvement across Canada. National Leadership through a National Patient Safety ConsortiumEstablished by Health Canada in 2003, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) works with governments, health organizations, leaders, healthcare providers and patients to inspire extraordinary improvement in patient safety and healthcare quality (CPSI 2018).In 2013, CPSI made a commitment to deliver on its original mandate: to establish a national integrated patient safety strategy (Wade et al. 2002).CPSI and its members felt that the climate and the time were right to bring together key stakeholders in Canadian healthcare to focus on some of the biggest patient safety challenges and align their work around common goals.In CPSI's view, it was essential to start with creating a coalition of willing participants, knowing that any effort to drive real change in safety would have to be much bigger than one organization could manage and could not succeed if it were seen to be solely one organization's agenda.It would require commitment from multiple levels and organizations to enable the synergy and coordination needed to accelerate the pace of improvement.Thus, from 2014 to 2018, CPSI and partners established the National Patient Safety Consortium to drive a shared action plan for safer healthcare.The National Patient Safety Consortium was composed of 50 organizations from across Canada that came together around a shared purpose: to drive a shared action plan for safer healthcare for Canadians.Representatives from governments (federal, provincial and territorial), provincial quality and safety organizations and committees (e.g., Health Quality Council of Alberta, Health Quality Ontario, Atlantic Health Quality and Patient Safety Collaborative), pan-Canadian organizations (e.g., Accreditation Canada, Canadian Institute for Health Information, Canada Health Infoway, Mental Health Commission of Canada), healthcare delivery systems (e.g., Alberta Health Services, University Health Network, Health PEI), professional groups (e.g., Canadian Nurses Association, Canadian Medical Protective Association, Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists, IPAC Canada) and patient and family partners (e.g., Patients for Patient Safety Canada, Patients Canada) comprised the Consortium.

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