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THEME- Where’s the Patient’s Voice in Health Professional Education 20 Years On
Website - https://wtpv2025.com/
Patient’s Voice 2025 is the 3rd international conference focused on embedding the voice of patients and clients into health and social care education. The emphasis is on practice, innovation and theory — especially how education for health professionals can be enriched by meaningful patient involvement.
When & where:
Dates: 12–15 November, 2025
Location: Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Why It Matters for my blog - Care Pathway
Patient‐centred curriculum: The conference highlights how lived experiences of patients or service users can inform curricula for future and current health/social care professionals. Including patient perspectives helps ensure training is relevant and respectful.
Collaboration & co‐production: It showcases examples of educators working in partnership with patients, clients, community groups — not just including them, but co-designing and co-delivering educational components. This aligns with best practices in developing care pathways that are responsive.
Improving outcomes & trust: When patients feel heard, and their needs and values are integrated into education and service design, that tends to improve care experiences, safety, access and satisfaction.
For my reflection as founder of care pathway, it means pathways designed around real needs rather than assumptions.
Looking forward to attend -
Listening to -
Presentations and case studies on education methods which centre patient/client voices.
Panel discussions (including mine alongside my colleagues) around how to support academic staff in Higher Education to build systems that meaningfully involve patients.
Workshops or sessions that explore barriers, ethics, power dynamics in patient involvement.
Networking with academics, educators, patient/community group members, policy makers.
