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Help us make endoscopy services on Vancouver Island the very best they can be! The Endoscopy Quality Council wants to involve patients in the development of a patient-centred evidence based endoscopy program.
Open to: Patient partners in the Island Health region
Volunteer Opportunity
Help us make endoscopy services on Vancouver Island the very best they can be! The Endoscopy Quality Council wants to involve patients in the development of a patient-centred evidence based endoscopy program.
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Endoscopy, Island Health
Aim
The Endoscopy Quality Council strives to ensure high-quality, standardized and equitable care for all patients with endoscopy needs wherever they live within the Island Health region. The Council is committed to the development of a high quality program and understands the patient and family experience of care is crucial to the achievement of this goal.
Much of the Council’s work focuses on learning for improvement. The inclusion of patient representatives at quarterly meetings will help to ensure that patients inform improvements to policies and procedures. Patient representatives will be invited to consider their experiences of care within the program in order to provide feedback on the topics discussed at each meeting.
Level of Engagement
This opportunity is at the level of involve on the spectrum of engagement (www.iap2.org). The promise to you is that the health care partner will involve patients in planning and design phases to ensure ideas or concerns are considered and reflected in alternatives and recommendations.
Eligibility
Patients, family members, or informal caregivers who have experience with Endoscopy care available through Island Health.
Comfort with participating in committee and working group settings, including sharing lived experiences in a group setting for the purposes of quality improvement.
Comfort with and access to technology and internet to attend meetings via Zoom
If you have a strong interest in this work but have not yet completed a PVN orientation and Volunteer Agreement , are unsure if your experience is a good fit or feel another format of engagement would work better with your availability, please contact Ashley Clark directly.
The placement process for this opportunity may include an informal interview between the volunteer and the health care partner.
Logistics
Vacancies: 1-2
Date and time: Meetings are usually held quarterly from 0700-1000
Location: Video-conference via Zoom
Term: 1 year with the option of renewal.
Time commitment: Attendance at quarterly meetings lasting approximately 3 hours.
Materials will be provided prior to each meeting and should be reviewed in advance in order to contribute to the facilitated, decision-focused discussions. Review of meeting materials may take approximately 1 to 2 hours.
Reimbursement
There are no anticipated costs associated with this opportunity.
Background
Endoscopy service is offered across Vancouver Island at West Coast General Hospital, Campbell River Hospital, Comox Valley Hospital (opening October 2017), Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Cowichan District Hospital, Saanich Peninsula Hospital, Lady Minto Hospital, Victoria General Hospital and Royal Jubilee Hospital. Services include screening and symptomatic colonoscopy, gastroscopy, endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography, endoscopic ultrasound and bronchoscopy.
The Council is responsible to set and ensure consistent standards and processes exist to support high quality care for patients experiencing Endoscopy care. This includes understanding and learning from patient safety events and feedback from our patients and clients. Click here to learn more about how the Endoscopy Quality Council is using quality improvement data to keep patients safe and inform its improvement activities. Council membership includes specialist physicians, senior managers, front-line leaders and clinicians from who are responsible for the delivery of Endoscopy and related services.
More information about Island Health’s quality councils or ‘Quality Structures’ is available here .
Interested?
Open to patient partners in the Island Health region.
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