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Member, Quality Forum 2025 Steering Committee

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Commitment: Short-term

Connection method: Hybrid

Open to Provincial Region, Patient partners across BC

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Health Quality BC is inviting a patient partner to join the Quality Forum 2025 & 2026 Steering Committees and contribute to planning one of the largest health quality conferences in Canada! Each year, the Quality Forum attracts more than 1,200 participants working across the continuum of care from communities throughout BC.

Quality Forum 2025 is taking place March 11-13, 2025 in Vancouver. Monthly Zoom meetings will be held between June 2024 and April 2025, with one in-person meeting in Vancouver in June 2024. Quality Forum 2026 timelines are expected to be similar but are not yet confirmed.

HQBC will provide complimentary registration to attend Quality Forum events, as well as coordinate travel and accommodation for Steering Committee members.

There are two patient partners on the Steering Committee – one new and one returning member – as well as representatives from partner organizations across BC. When applying for this opportunity, please describe the skills and abilities you would bring, as well as your experience and comfort level when it comes to collaborating and interacting with a large group of diverse health system partners.

Level of Engagement

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

Eligibility

  • Willing & comfortable to share health care experiences in a group setting
  • Previous committee/working group experience
  • 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 required to be PVN members to participate in this engagement opportunity.

Health Care Partner Contact Information

Briar Mayoh
Project Coordinator, People & Strategy | Health Quality BC
(250) 580-4603
briar.mayoh@healthqualitybc.ca

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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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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.