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Because your voice matters.

Patient Partner Resources

There is a wealth of information to support your involvement in PVN. In the Resource Section, you can find resources to help with:

  • On-boarding: what it means to be a patient partner and how PVN works.
  • Preparation: how to get involved and be successful in engagement opportunities.
  • The RSVP process: support for your recruitment and placement into engagement opportunities.
  • Skill-building: learn about health care improvement and patient engagement.

All resources are created with input from patient and/or health care partners.

We encourage you to take a look at the Health Quality BC website. “What Matters to You” and other resources are there to support improving the quality of health care in BC.

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Building skills

  1. Patient Partner FAQs
    • Glossary & FAQs
  2. RSVP Form – Sample
    • Guides
    • PVN Materials
    • Tips & Checklists
  3. Zoom Instructions
    • Tips & Checklists

Engaging patient partners

  1. Check-In Checklist
    • Guides
    • Tips & Checklists
  2. Patient Partner FAQs
    • Glossary & FAQs
  3. Zoom Instructions
    • Tips & Checklists

Getting started with PVN

  1. Glossary
    • Glossary & FAQs
  2. Patient Partner FAQs
    • Glossary & FAQs
  3. RSVP Form – Sample
    • Guides
    • PVN Materials
    • Tips & Checklists

Participating in opportunities

  1. Check-In Checklist
    • Guides
    • Tips & Checklists
  2. Glossary
    • Glossary & FAQs
  3. Meet and Greet
    • Tips & Checklists
  4. Patient Partner FAQs
    • Glossary & FAQs
  5. RSVP Form – Sample
    • Guides
    • PVN Materials
    • Tips & Checklists

Telling people about PVN

From Our Community

Shana Ooms

Executive Director of Primary Care Strategy, Policy and Quality — BC Ministry of Health

Shana Ooms

Where those of us in the room may have debated policy or wording, patient voices made sure patients were top of mind. And as a result, significant improvements were made to simplify something that was otherwise complex. Patient voices at the table bring us back to reality in terms of what we are trying to achieve.