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This year’s Quality Forum features more opportunities than ever before to watch sessions live online, ask speakers questions and interact with other participants through interactive chats.
Eliminating anti-Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit and Métis) racism and promoting cultural safety and humility is a high priority across our health system. Find ways to expand your learning!
How do we know when we’ve achieved cultural safety? When both sides leave feeling content. This is one answer shared as we met with Indigenous patient partners during a recent project to develop resources about culturally safe patient engagement.
We’re thrilled to introduce you to someone new who will be supporting patient engagement across BC. We sat down with her to ask about what drew them to work in patient engagement, and their hopes for the health care system.
We’re thrilled to introduce you to someone new(ish!) who will be supporting patient engagement across BC. Leslie Chan is the Project Coordinator on the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council’s Patient & Public Engagement team and will be supporting PVN’s work closely.
The BC Patient Safety & Quality Council is thrilled to share PVN’s 2020/21 Annual Report and celebrate the hard work of the network’s patient and health care partners through a very challenging year. Last year we welcomed 139 new patient partners, which brought our total membership to more than 1,250,…
Adverse drug events are the harmful and unintended consequences of medication use. With 75% of Canadians over 65 taking one or more prescription medications daily to treat chronic conditions like hypertension, heart disease or mental illness[1], it’s not surprising that these events happen. They contribute to over two million…
With great respect and admiration, we acknowledge the life and legacy of Gitxsan Hereditary Chief Sim’oogit Ma’os, Bill Blackwater Jr., from Kispiox, who passed away in July 2021. As a Patient Voices Network patient partner, Bill encouraged all health care providers, particularly physicians, to learn about the land and culture…
Never underestimate the influence of sharing a patient’s experience with health care teams. Lelainia Lloyd didn’t know what to expect when she joined the Medical Imaging Advisory Council of BC as a patient partner. “There were a lot of [doctors] and I don’t think they really knew what they wanted…
The Patient and Public Engagement Team from the BC Patient & Safety Quality Council hosted a virtual gathering on June 17 for Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) patient partners from the Patient Voices Network (PVN). This gathering centred around hearing what matters to them to be culturally safe while…
Health Quality BC administers the Patient Voices Network. Using evidence-informed strategies, the Council shifts culture, improves clinical practice and advances person- and family-centred care to support high-quality care for every person in our province.
