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Fever and asthma and wounds, oh my! Have you ever taken your child to the Emergency Room and left feeling confused & unsure how to manage their illness or injury at home? A project team from the UBC Medical School Island Medical Program needs input from patient partners to ensure that…
If you have called 911 or interacted with paramedics in an emergency situation, BC Emergency Health Services wants you to take 15 minutes to give your valuable input on a new survey tool. Open to: Patient partners across the province…
Are you interested in improving access to health care for rural residents of BC? Do you want to help ensure patient perspectives and values are incorporated into an evaluation of new rural surgical networks in rural BC? Open to: Patient partners from rural communities in BC…
Health research often does not reflect the burden of disease placed on patients and families. Factors like funding sources, vested researcher interests, publication bias, and consumer pressure can influence the research agenda away from the needs of patients. As a result, questions that patients and clinicians consider important may not…
Have you been in an Emergency department (ED) within the last five years? Do you have thoughts on how patient flow through emergency rooms could be improved? This opportunity might be for you! Lend your experience in emergency departments to inform the development of a mobile app to make the…
Would you like to be part of a ground-breaking, culture-shifting initiative intended to ensure health research is done in partnership with patients and focuses on priorities that matter to patients? The BC SUPPORT Unit is looking to fill 4-6 vacant seats on their existing Patient Council. As a member of…
Help the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council celebrate inspiring people and projects that have improved BC’s health system! Open to: Patient partners across the province…
Do you have an interest in physician specialist care in BC’s health system? Do you want to aid in building more collaborative partnerships between physicians and health care decision makers? Open to: Patient partners across the province…
Contribute to meaningful, high-level decisions about the use of health resources across the province! Open to: Patient partners outside the greater Vancouver area (the committee already has one patient partner from the Vancouver area and is looking for another person from a different area in BC)…
Do you have an interest in helping to create a ripple effect of positive change across the province? Do you see the benefit in health care providers asking patients and families “What Matters to You?” If you are passionate about advancing patient- and family–centered care in BC, please join us…
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.
