Canadian Patient Safety Week 2024 Communications Guide: Share, Engage, Connect
October 28-November 1, 2024 | UnderstandHarm.ca
Organized by Healthcare Excellence Canada, Canadian Patient Safety Week (CPSW) is an annual campaign to inspire extraordinary improvements in healthcare safety and quality. This year, for CPSW 2024, we’re focusing on broadening our understanding of healthcare harm.
We’ve created this toolkit to help you showcase your local CPSW 2024 events, to help us spread the word that CPSW is coming and to encourage people to participate. Sharing about CPSW on social media, by email or on your website (like your events page, if you have one) are all great options. We've put together a guide to make this as easy as possible.
Social media
We’ve made it easy for you to post about CPSW 2024 on your social media channels. Feel free to copy and paste the content below or use it as inspiration for your own custom posts. Don’t forget to tag Healthcare Excellence Canada if you end up posting so we can share your content on our channels, too.
Campaign hashtags: #CPSW2024 #PatientSafety #UnderstandHarm
LinkedIn: Healthcare Excellence Canada
X (formerly Twitter): HE_ES_Canada
Facebook: HealthcareExcellenceCanada
Instagram: he_es_canada
Sample posts
Sharing news about your organization's CPSW 2024 event
It’s Canadian Patient Safety Week 2024 and we’re broadening our understanding of healthcare harm, together! Through our activities, we’re learning that people can experience physical, psychological, social and spiritual harm while delivering and / or receiving healthcare and we’re becoming a champion for safer care. You can too by visiting UnderstandHarm.ca
Promote CPSW 2024
Ready to broaden your understanding of healthcare harm? We sure are! Healthcare Excellence Canada made it the theme for Canadian Patient Safety Week 2024. Healthcare harm matters to those receiving and delivering care. Learning to recognize and reduce healthcare harm is essential to creating safety for all. Find out more and register now: https://www.UnderstandHarm.ca
Promote the webinar series
Take part in Healthcare Excellence Canada’s Canadian Patient Safety Week 2024 webinar series! These webinars are designed to broaden our understanding of healthcare harm, emphasizing that harm is not just physical – and how to create safer care. Sign up for as many as you like and join the discussion. Registration is now open! Learn more: https://www.healthcareexcellence.ca/cpsw2024webinars
Share the activity card
Harm experienced while receiving and delivering healthcare can go beyond the physical. How much do you think about psychological, social and spiritual harm? Healthcare Excellence Canada developed an activity for Canadian Patient Safety Week 2024 to stimulate discussions and thoughtful reflections so that proactive actions can be taken to prevent harm and create safer care for all. Learn more and download the activity card: https://healthcareexcellence.ca/cpsw2024activitycard
Graphics
Be sure to post images from your local CPSW events and activities. You can also use the graphics below on your website, in your communications and alongside your social media posts. Please do not alter these graphics, as they are part of the campaign’s visual identity.
