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Commitment: Short-term
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The BC Quality Awards celebrate the individuals and teams who are improving care and inspiring positive change in health care across BC. We would like to invite three patient partners to join our judging panel and decide the winners and runners-up of the 17th annual awards.
The role of the patient partners will be to review and score nominations from a selection of categories. After scoring nominations, patient partners will join the full judging panel, made up of leaders in health care quality, HQBC Council Members, clinicians and key health care partners for a virtual meeting to decide the winners and runners up of the Quality Awards.
HQBC’s BC Quality Awards celebrates and recognizes teams and individuals in BC who are improving care and inspiring positive change in health care across BC. Their projects include achievements and innovations within the within the five areas of care of the BC Health Quality Matrix, as well as those focused on achievements in sustainable care and co-designing health with public and community. In addition, individual recognition is also awarded to inspiring quality leaders, patients and health care professionals across the spectrum of care.
Now in their 17th year, the Quality Awards help us recognize and raise the profile of improvements to the quality of care in BC. The winners are each awarded a $2,500 sponsorship to help support and disseminate learning from their projects.
Number of vacancies: 3
Date and Time: Judges will have 3 weeks to score the nominations in September 2026. A virtual meeting will then be scheduled for the final voting process in October 2026.
Location: Online meetings via Zoom
Training: Judges will be provided with instruction on how to use the scoring platform
Commitment: Approx. three months
No out-of-pocket expenses are anticipated for this engagement opportunity. However, if you meet the eligibility criteria, but have concerns about your ability to participate, please contact Tracy Watson, tracy.watson@healthqualitybc.ca to see if support options are available. We are always seeking to better understand and reduce barriers to participation.
For more information on the BC Quality Awards and to check out past winners, please visit the HQBC website: https://healthqualitybc.ca/quality-awards/
Level of Engagement
This opportunity is at the level of Involve on the IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation.Eligibility
- Have access to technology and the internet to participate in the engagement opportunity
- Comfortable using technology to attend online/virtual meetings
- Have experience of collaborating with leaders in health care quality
- Are comfortable working in a large group and are able to share their decision-making process
- Have an interest in and experience of using data to measure the impact or success of a project (either within or outside of health care)
- Are comfortable reading and reviewing 20-30 submissions and scoring based on certain criteria
