Never events for hospital care in Canada : Événements qui ne devraient jamais arriver dans les soins hospitaliers au Canada : des soins plus sécuritaires pour les patients

Last year, the consortium identified a number of priority actions, one of which was to bring together a group of volunteer partners to research and recommend a list of never events in Canadian health care; this group became the Never Events Action Team. [...] Being a part of the Never Events Action Team was a great fit for Patients for Patient Safety Canada, and allowed us to make sure the voice of the patient was heard. [...] However, health organizations and result in serious patient harm or death, and that workers have the knowledge and ability to reduce the can be prevented by using organizational checks occurrence of these events and should strive to prevent and balances. [...] In across the country, the expertise of providers and the Canada, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia have been experiences of patients to prevent these events from leaders in adopting similar patient safety event lists that occurring again. [...] The current focus is on events that group of partners to research and recommend a list can occur while a patient is admitted in hospital, where of never events in Canadian health care.