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Interior Health Environmental Sustainability Team

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Commitment: Short-term

Connection method: Virtual

Open to Interior Region, Provincial Region, Patient partners across BC

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The Interior Health Environmental Sustainability clinical team works to help reduce the environmental impacts of our health care system. We work a large variety of projects on topics that span the whole range of health care services related to anything from surgery to pharmacy to long term care.

Some of the projects we work on have the potential to directly impact patients and these projects would benefit from patient input. Examples of involvement might include reviewing public-facing informational materials or participating in planning sessions for new or ongoing initiatives. We believe that patients bring a critically important perspective and voice to our quality improvement efforts.

Level of Engagement

This opportunity is at the level of Involve on the IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation.

Eligibility

  • Willing & comfortable to share health care experiences in a group setting
  • Have access to technology and the internet to participate in the engagement opportunity
  • Comfortable using technology to attend online/virtual meetings
  • An interest in improving health care services
  • The time to participate in the engagement opportunity
Patient Partners ARE NOT required to be PVN members to participate in this engagement opportunity.

Health Care Partner Contact Information

Ilona Hale Medical Director, Climate Change and Sustainability, Environmental Sustainability | Interior Health Authority (250) 432-5073 ilona.hale@interiorhealth.ca

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