Written submission guidelines

Individuals are invited to provide feedback via Online survey: First Nations, Métis and Inuit or Online survey: Public. Representatives from organizations and associations who want to provide feedback may send their written submissions to PatientCareQuality@gov.bc.ca by 4 pm PT on June 15, 2026.

Alternatively submissions can be mailed to:

Please include your organization’s mission and/or service population in your written submissions to help us situate your feedback. Written submissions should be no longer than five pages in Word or PDF format.

Submissions must meet the following criteria:

• Does not contain profanity or content that is defamatory, threatening, hateful, personally disparaging, harassing, indecent, vulgar, obscene, illegal, immoral or sexually explicit (partially masking profanity or other unacceptable language by substituting asterisks or other symbols into a word is not acceptable if the word remains recognizable)
• Does not appear to, or actually, infringe the copyright, trademark, right of privacy, right of publicity or any other intellectual property or other proprietary right of any third party
• Does not contain information about, or images (e.g., photographs, videos or illustrations) of, any person other than the person submitting the content
• Does not advertise any product, person or organization, or direct attention to another website for personal gain
• Does not provide links to, or information about, other sites that contain unlawful, objectionable or inappropriate content
• Does not make unproven or unsupported accusations against individuals, groups or organizations
• Does not appear to be spam-like messaging, a repeat posting or a template letter writing campaign
• Is not far off-topic

All submissions will be read and considered as part of an Engagement summary report.

Collection Notice: The Ministry of Health is collecting this information under section 26(c) and 26(e) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and section 2 of the Anti-Racism Data Act to inform policy development for improving B.C.’s Patient Care Quality Program and health care quality assurance processes, including possible updates to section 51 of the Evidence Act and Ministerial Directives under the Patient Care Quality Review Board Act. It will also help to identify and eliminate systemic racism and discrimination in the health care system and support racial equity. If you have questions about why your information is being collected, please contact: Executive Director, Citizen Engagement, CitizenEngagement@gov.bc.ca