Because your voice matters.

Interior Health’s Professional Practice Office Physiotherapy Working Group

Posted

Closed

Commitment: Short-term

Connection method: Virtual

Open to Interior Region, Patient partners across BC

Posted

Interior Health’s Professional Practice Office is updating the resource package for patients who have had a lower extremity amputation and are preparing for prosthetic fitting. We are seeking input from patients partners to review the resources for clarity and ideally to ensure the resources align with lived experiences. Resources will be shared virtually and feedback could be written or through discussions (telephone or video).

Level of Engagement

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

Eligibility

  • Specific health care experiences [details below]
  • People with a lower limb amputation and have received a prosthesis.

Patient Partners ARE NOT required to be PVN members to participate in this engagement opportunity.

Health Care Partner Contact Information

Michael Elder
Manager - Allied Health Education and Practice, Professional Practice Office | Interior Health
(250) 809-7770
michael.elder@interiorhealth.ca

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Karla Warkotsch

Patient Experience Consultant – Interior Health

Karla Warkotsch

The question I like to ask health care employees is ‘Who is this for?’ and ‘Do we have the right people at the table?’ As a health care employee, I see how easy it is to fall into doing for, rather than doing with patients. The voices of the patient, family and caregiver are essential to ensure the patient is central to the direction and focus of the work being done.

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