A Quality Debate: Has COVID-19 Put an End to Quality Improvement?

At Quips, Quandaries And Comebacks: A Quality Debate, four great speakers argued an important – and divided – motion related to improving the quality of care in BC’s health system:

Be it resolved that…COVID-19 has put an end to quality improvement.

"FOR" Team:
Bev Pomeroy, Patient Engagement Specialist, BC SUPPORT Unit, Fraser Centre (Fraser Health) and Patient Partner (Patient Voices Network)
Hussein Kanji, Medical Director, High Acuity Unit (Vancouver General Hospital) and Clinical Lead, Critical Care (BC Patient Safety & Quality Council)

"AGAINST" Team:
Carl Meadows, Executive Director, Clinical Operations, Acute & Community, South Okanagan (Interior Health)
Mandy Man, Registered Nurse and Quality Lead (Vancouver Coastal Health)

The Quality Forum’s annual debate is meant to incite discussion and challenge commonly-held beliefs about a timely health care topic. We have assigned the debate’s speakers to their teams; their positions do not necessarily reflect their personal views on the debate topic, nor those of their respective organizations.