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Sponsored by Health Insurance Reciprocal of Canada (HIROC) and Ontario Safety Association for Community & Healthcare (OSACH)

October 5 & 6, 2009
Rennaissance Toronto Hotel Downtown
1 Blue Jays Way, Toronto, Ontario

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Major-General Lewis Mackenzie
Lessons on Leadership

Dr. Graham Lowe
Leadership Strategies for an Effective Culture of Safety

This two day conference will focus on:

• Leadership & Accountability for Safety – The LEAP Tool
• Mitigating Risk: Bridging the Gap Between Patient Safety and Employee Safety
• Management Strategies for Disclosure of Patient Look Backs, Re-calls & Adverse Events
• Organization’s Success in Adopting a System Approach to Safety
• Effective Strategies for Managing Workplace Violence
• Managing Safety in Emergency Departments
• Organizational Safety in Community Care Environments

Who should attend?

CEOs, VPs, Board Members, Senior directors, Risk Managers, Patient Safety Specialists, Physicians, Chiefs of Staff, Nursing Leaders, Legal Counsel, Healthcare and Community Care Managers, Human Resources Directors/Managers, Joint & Occupational & Safety Staff

www.hiroc.com         www.hchsa.on.ca

Agenda

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Save the Date!

Canada’s Forum on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
April 28-30, 2009

With the increasing national and international focus on patient safety, the need for a broad forum for learning
has been identified. Canada’s Forum on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement will provide multiple learning streams with a national and international flavour. The program for the forum will provide opportunity for a variety of professionals to participate, including, but not limited to, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, health care providers, educators, leaders, researchers, and board members.A few of the exciting speakers you will see at this event are:

Helen Bevan, Director of Service Transformation, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement;
Lise Mathieu, Retired Major General, Canadian Forces; Commander of the Canadian Forces Health System.

The streams for the forum will fall under the following areas:

• Applied Learning
• Infection Prevention and Control
• Medication Safety
• Patients and Family Involvement
• Patient Safety in Physician Practice
• Technology and Patient Safety

For further information, please visit our website at: http://www.patientsafetyinstitute.ca/news/canada_forum_2009.html

Call for Abstracts

The Canadian Patient Safety Institute invites you to submit an abstract for a poster presentation at Canada’s
Forum on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement being hosted in Toronto, Ontario at the Westin Harbour Castle on April 28-30, 2009.

With the increasing national and international focus on patient safety, the need for a broad forum for learning
has been identifi ed. Canada’s Forum on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement will provide multiple learning streams with a national and international fl avour. The program for the forum will provide opportunity for a variety of professionals to participate, including, but not limited to, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, health care providers, educators, leaders, researchers and board members.

With the key message of patient safety and quality improvement, the forum will:

• Focus on the needs and expectations of front-line practitioners and decision-makers;
• Appeal to a broad multi-disciplinary audience;
• Be focused on learning and skill development;
• Include topics that cross the continuum of care.

To obtain more information please visit our website at:
http://www.patientsafetyinstitute.ca/news/canada_forum_2009.html

We thank all those who apply.
Deadline for submissions: November 15, 2008

** Please forward this information to potential interested colleagues

Please join The Canadian Patient Safety Institute to provide your input on the Canadian Reporting and Learning System!

Critical incidents: the most serious subset of adverse events and they occur far too often in Canadian healthcare.

When a critical incident occurs in one jurisdiction, other provinces or territories are not made aware of the hazard, or the learning that results from analysis, because a pan-Canadian system with these characteristics does not currently exist.

The Proposed Solution: The Canadian Patient Safety Institute is proposing CAERLS to address this identified gap.

1. CAERLS would receive de-indentified reports of critical incidents from provinces and territories when they occur.

2. CAERLS would contain a surveillance structure is to identify emerging hazards and solutions globally.

These two streams of information would be analyzed and those hazards and solutions, which meet a predetermined criteria, would then be communicated to Canadian healthcare stakeholders.

CAERLS is focused on the reduction of harm to patients by providing valuable information on emerging risks and mitigation strategies to those responsible for delivering healthcare services in Canada.

CPSI has made several recommendations for a pan-Canadian system and, as part of their commitment to collaborate on this important initiative they are currently seeking input from stakeholders across the country to further inform the development of this proposed learning system through a series of consultation meetings.

CPSI hosting a consultation meeting in Winnipeg, MB on February 3rd, 2009 at the Delta Winnipeg from 1:00pm to 5:00pm with lunch starting at 12:00pm and would appreciate your participation.

Below is a link to the Consultation Paper - Building a Safer System: Canadian Adverse Event Reporting and Learning System (CAERLS) - and a summary document that will provide you with the necessary background information to participate in this event. CPSI needs your perspective regarding the unique opportunities and challenges for implementing such a system in Manitoba.

Please visit the website www.CAERLS.ca for more information and to register for this event. If you have any questions, please email CAERLS@cpsi-icsp.ca or contact Erin Pollock, Project Manager, at 780-498-7267.