Rethinking Patient Safety: A Discussion Guide for Patients, Healthcare Providers and Leaders

Healthcare Excellence Canada  and Patients for Patient Safety Canada held many conversations about patient safety with users of the health system, people who work in healthcare and safety scientists. Their learnings so far are summarized summarized in this key statement: Everyone contributes to patient safety. Together we must learn and act to create safer care and reduce all forms of healthcare harm. After elaborating on each of the phrases in that key statement, the guide provides a list of considerations that go beyond traditional thinking on patient safety.

Building community power for health equity: A curated list

Power imbalance is a root cause of health inequities. To develop interventions that intentionally shift power, public health practitioners need an understanding of power and be able to recognize how power and health equity outcomes are interrelated. Further, public health practitioners can use frameworks for conceptualizing power to analyze power dynamics related to specific issues, and then develop and implement strategies and tactics from that analysis.

Technical Specifications for the 2023/24 Quality Improvement Plans

This document outlnes indicator definitions, calculations, reporting periods, and other technical information hospitals, interprofessional primary care organizations, and long-term care homes will use to complete their 2023/24 Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs). It also inclues the questions organizations will answer in the Narrative section of their QIPs. 

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Guide pour la prescription sociale à l’intention des prestataires de soins primaires dispensés en équipe en Ontario

Ce guide a été rédigé par l’Alliance pour des communautés en santé. Nous représentons des organisations de soins de santé primaires régies par la communauté. Nous comptons parmi nos membres, des centres de santé communautaire, des centres d’accès aux services de santé pour les Autochtones, des équipes de santé familiale communautaire, et des cliniques dirigées par du personnel infirmier praticien.

Social Prescribing Guidebook for team-based primary care providers in Ontario

This guidebook has been prepared by the Alliance for Healthier Communities. We represent community-governed primary health care organizations. Our membership includes Ontario’s Community Health Centres, Aboriginal Health Access Centres, Community Family Health Teams and Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics.

We share a strong commitment to advance health equity. And we recognize that access to the highest attainable standards of health is a fundamental human right. Our vision is the best possible health and wellbeing for everyone living in Ontario.

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