Program directory · Health Canada
Patient Safety
- Department
- Health Canada
- Program code
- BVG11 (H)
- Core responsibility
- Health Care Systems
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2022-23 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
Health Canada’s Strategic Policy Branch provides and synthesizes broad policy advice that helps to advance patient safety in health care systems. The contribution to the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) supports the federal government's interest in achieving an accessible, high quality, sustainable and accountable health system adaptable to the needs of Canadians. CPSI’s work is designed to improve the quality of health care systems by providing a leadership role in building a culture of patient safety and quality improvement through coordination across sectors, promotion of best practices, and advice on effective strategies to improve patient safety. Its emphasis is on: education, focused on developing curriculum and training programs; interventions and programs, focused on supporting evidence-informed clinical interventions and programs; research, to increase the scope and scale of patient safety research; and tools and resources, focused on creating tools and resources that can be applied by health care organizations. Target populations include: patients and their families, the medical community, provincial health quality councils, health care leaders, researchers, administrators, policy/decision-makers, educators, and governments. CPSI consults and collaborates with an extensive and diverse network of stakeholders that includes governments, patients, health care organizations and professionals, and international organizations.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patient Safety | This program | 2018-19 – 2024-25 | $76.3M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | Spending $28.4M, against $7.6M in 2020-21 (+274%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 5% – 6% | 2019 | 5.3% | Met |
| 2019-20 | ≤ 5% | 2020 | — Data source is CIHI Discharge Abstract Database. Data for 2019-20 has not yet been released. | No result reported |
| 2020-21 | 5% – 6% | 2021 | — Data for this year is unavailable at this time due in part to delays caused by the pandemic. New data is expected to be available in 2021-22. | No result reported |
| 2021-22 | 5% – 6% | 2022 | 6% | Met |
| 2022-23 | 5% – 6% | 2023 | — Data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information was not available at the time of reporting. Data is expected to be available in Fall 2023. | No result reported |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $8.8M | $7.6M |
| 2019-20 | $8.8M | $7.6M |
| 2020-21 | $7.9M | $7.6M |
| 2021-22 | $26.5M | $28.4M |
| 2022-23 | $24.8M | $25.1M |
| 2023-24 | $24.8M* | — |
| 2024-25 | $24.8M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 11 | 2 |
| 2019-20 | 12 | 2 |
| 2020-21 | 2 | 2 |
| 2021-22 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-23 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-24 | 2* | — |
| 2024-25 | 2* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $8,786,255 | $8,806,712 | $8,810,024 | ||||
| 2019-20 plan | $8,807,576 | $8,810,888 | $8,811,635 | ||||
| 2020-21 plan | $7,877,861 | $7,877,861 | $7,877,861 | ||||
| 2021-22 plan | $26,469,980 | $24,769,980 | $24,769,980 | ||||
| 2022-23 plan | $24,770,250 | $24,770,250 | $24,770,250 | ||||
| Actual | $7,600,000 | $7,600,000 | $7,600,000 | $28,400,000 | $25,100,000 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
