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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’ve just released a new resource called Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Elevating the Voices of All British Columbians! Thank you to the patient and health care partners who contributed to developing this guide.
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.
Formed in 2020, the Patient Voices Network’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Working Group started off by exploring guiding definitions for DEI work and how these definitions could support future work. This article is a follow up to September’s update on our DEI Working Group.
It’s key that changes made to our health care system are inclusive of patients – and that’s what the Patients as Partners Initiative strives to accomplish. The initiative included a few PVN patient partners in this important work.
Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group was formed in 2020 to explore how to reduce barriers to joining PVN. It also aims to explore how a welcoming environment – one that supports emotional safety and builds trust – can be promoted across the network. The group consists of…
What makes patient engagement successful? How do we know if it’s ‘good’ or ‘working well’? Despite the growing momentum and practice of patient engagement in quality improvement, system redesign, and other health system projects, there remains no widely agreed upon way to determine how well, or if these efforts are…
My name is Bev Pomeroy, I prefer to use they/them pronouns. I had the privilege of attending the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion Unconference this past May. The Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI) is a made-in-Canada solution designed to help employers, diversity and inclusion/human rights/equity and…
The staff in the medical imaging department at Kelowna General Hospital knew that the ultrasound experience for both patients and staff could be improved. In the spring of 2018, they held a Rapid Process Improvement Workshop to identify potential improvements. In the workshop, participants identified and worked through rapid…
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…
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.
