We are closely following the COVID-19 pandemic and recognize that during this time, some engagement opportunities may not proceed in their original timelines due to the system’s response. Please contact your Engagement Leader if you have any questions or concerns. We thank you for taking steps to keep yourself, your community and your loved ones safe and healthy.
For accurate, up-to-date COVID-19 information, please refer to the BC Centre for Disease Control. The Ministry of Health has also developed a BC COVID-19 Self-Assessment Tool that you can use to determine if you need further assessment or testing.
Open Opportunities:
PVN Internal
The BC Patient Safety & Quality Council, which administers PVN, aims to keep the patient perspective at the heart of its work. The Council has new engagement opportunities that invite patient partners to participate in projects it is leading to drive high-quality care in BC. We are excited to share these new opportunities with you, here under PVN Internal Opportunities.
Health Care Partner Engagements
Patient Partner Research
In addition to the engagement opportunities offered by our health care partners, we support health researchers through our partnership with REACH BC.
REACH BC is a new online platform that connects researchers to the public and to patients who are interested in participating in health research opportunities. The platform will house an online listing of all recruiting health research projects and patient partner research opportunities. Patient partner research opportunities will be cross-posted here on our PVN website if requested by the health researcher.
External Engagements
In addition to the engagement opportunities offered by our health care partners, we list opportunities administered and supported by other organizations that are also looking for deeply committed patient partners to improve BC’s health system:
To RSVP for opportunities, and to receive newsletters that will notify you of new ones, sign up as a patient partner with the Patient Voices Network. For tips on how to fill out the RSVP forms, make sure to read this brief list.
Learn more about what it’s like to be involved in PVN, in the words of a patient partner.
ProvincialMember, Cross Canada Breastfeeding Initiative
St. Paul’s Hospital maternal and newborn health team is participating in putting best practices into action and needs volunteers to join the team. Be part of a team committed to giving the best start possible to newborns through early attachment with human milk for babies.
Open to: Patient partners across the province
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Deadline: August 11, 2020
Participant, Cultural Safety in Patient-Centred Measurement Methodologies for Indigenous Peoples Advisory Committee
Make reporting your health care experiences culturally safe. This advisory committee is guiding a research project that is trying to understand the ways of sharing patient experiences that would be culturally safe, appropriate, empowering and easy for Indigenous patients to share their thoughts about the care they have received in the BC health care system. As an Indigenous patient partner, you would be an important part of doing this work in a good way.
Open to: Patient partners across the province
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Deadline: August 11, 2020
Participant, Joint Clinical Committee (JCC) Most Responsible Physician Workshop
Family Physicians are slowly stopping the delivery of inpatient care services across BC’s 84 hospitals which deliver this service. The JCC working group is wanting to proactively plan how we go about delivering inpatient care services given this shift.
Open to: Patient partners across the province
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Deadline: August 12, 2020
Interviewee, Health Technology Assessment – MitraClip for Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair
Can your voice speak to health care experiences with valve disease? If yes, consider this opportunity to work with the Health Technology Assessment Team to inform treatment choices in BC for those with certain types of heart disease.
Open to: Patient partners across the province
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Deadline: August 14, 2020
Member, Centre for Mental Health & Addictions – Partnerships in Care Committee
Improving the care of people with severe mental health and addictions is vital to a healthy British Columbia. BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services is transforming the way they support people with lived experience, and their family members, across British Columbia. The Partnerships in Care Committee is seeking patient and family voices in the creation, implementation, and evaluation of services directed at BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services.
Open to: Patient partners across the province
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Deadline: August 31, 2020