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Here’s How You Can Help Improve Island Health’s Quality of Care!

As you may have seen on our Engagement Opportunities page, Island Health is looking for patient partners to join several Quality Councils on Vancouver Island. We invited Catherine Marrie, a consultant with Island Health's Quality and Patient Safety Portfolio, to write a blog post explaining these unique opportunities:

Continue reading… Join Island Health's Quality Councils
High School Students Help Interior Health’s Online Portal

A crucial aspect of patient-centred care in BC is engaging those who truly represent the diversity in the province. One group often missed is youth, so Interior Health is working on ways to engage them in initiatives. In this post, our engagement leader Carol Stathers describes how Interior Health engaged high school students to get feedback on the organization's new health portal:

Continue reading… Focus Group MyHealthPortal.Engaging young volunteers.Patient Voices Network
Results of Engagement Opportunities: PHSA’s Patient and Family Inclusivity Policy

The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) recently engaged PVN Patient Partners, as well as patients and families across the province, in a province-wide opportunity to help develop a Patient and Family Inclusivity Policy and Playbook (toolkit). In this post, project lead Shannon Griffin recounts PHSA’s experience engaging patient…

Continue reading… Results of engagement opportunities.Patient Voices Network.PHSA
Patient Stories: A True Health Care Partnership

Our patient partner Linda Perkins, from Surrey, has been fighting blindness for the last 20 years. In this post, she tells us her story and the meaningful difference a true health care partner has made in her health and her life:

Continue reading… Linda Perkins.PVN Patient Partner.Surrey

From Our Community

Christine Wallsworth

Patient Partner, Vancouver

Christine Wallsworth

Patient and family partners should not be a check box on research proposals! They need to be involved right from the start. I know patient and family partners are doing their part by providing their knowledge to researchers from their lived experience.  It’s a win-win for us to work together through PVN to make sure our input drives improvements.