NIRD/Northern Health videoconferencing project improves access to care in rural communities

A videoconferencing initiative started by Northern Interior Rural division doctors is improving access to care for patients in northern BC. The Robson Valley Virtual Medicine project—a collaboration between the Northern Interior Rural division (NIRD) and Northern Health—uses videoconferencing technology to connect two neighboring rural emergency departments, enabling physicians who share on-call duties to see patients immediately without needing to travel from one hospital to the other.

Campbell River Division doctor wins international leadership award

Campbell River emergency room physician Dr Jeffrey Beselt is the recipient of the 2018 Canadian College of Health Leaders’ Celebrating the Human Spirit Award.  The award recognizes the meaningful contributions of individuals or teams who provide health services for acts of caring and compassion that go above and beyond the call of duty, inspire others, and have a profound and lasting impact.

Advance Care Planning in FNW: GP collaboration improves dignity and quality of life for patients

Advance care planning conversations are key to ensuring that patients receive end-of-life care that aligns with their needs and beliefs. Recognizing this, Fraser Northwest division has been working with Fraser Health for the past four years to implement an effective and reliable method of transferring this information between doctors’ offices and facilities.  

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The Divisions of Family Practice acknowledge that we work on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of many different Indigenous Nations throughout British Columbia.

Acknowledging that we are on the traditional territories of Indigenous communities is an expression of cultural humility and involves recognizing our duty and desire to support the provision of culturally safe care to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in BC.