2024 Divisions Dispatch

December 3, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • Important changes to the CLFP Payment
  • Transition funding extended for inpatient care
  • Panel management training for medical office staff
  • Doctors of BC's Clinical Faculty Survey
  • Registration open for Quality Forum 
  • More BC Cancer Screening Letters Available on Health Gateway
  • Post-Baccalaureate Certificate offered in primary care nursing
  • Weaving Webs of Connection: Virtual spiritual support for advanced illness
  • Optimizing antimicrobial use through the respiratory season in children
  • Family physician sought for Dizzy Symposium 2025
  • Brain health in a nutshell
  • Canadian MAiD Curriculum Sessions

November 13, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • Seeking physician feedback: Doctors of BC’s policy statement on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Health Care 
  • Doctors of BC's Clinical Faculty Survey
  • BC Family Doctors Billing Resources
  • UBC Family Physician Survey on Preventive Medicine
  • Opportunity available from the JCCs: Health Quality BC’s Quality Forum
  • New Chronic Pain Care Pathway and Pain Advice Options
  • BC Rural Health Awards
  • EMR Skill Building Sessions
  • Concussion Management in Children and Adolescents  
  • Substance Use Disorder Care in Rural and Remote Communities  
  • Webinar: Practical Strategies for Working with Parents of Anxious Children 
  • Transitions between Oral Pharmacotherapies for Opioid Use Disorder 

October 30, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • PAS Update
  • Request for Physician Feedback
  • Clinic Health and Safety Assessments for Community Physicians 
  • New Biosimilars Initiative Patient Support Fees 
  • Appetite to Play for Families: Facilitator Training 
  • Conversations That Matter Workshop 
  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program Winter 2025 
  • Expression of Interest for Quality Team Coaching for Rural BC
  • New Accommodation Support for Cancer Patients
  • Pain Care BC: National Pain Awareness Week Nov. 3-9
  • CYMHSU CoP 9th Annual Gathering: Waitlist and Cancellations 
  • FPON Webinar: ‘Ovarian Cancer for Primary Care Providers’
  • Develop Executive Functioning Skills with Free Workshops 
  • Postpartum Care for Family Physicians: Gestational Diabetes and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy 

October 17, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • FPSC update on inpatient care and long-term care supports
  • LFP Payment Model update
  • PAS Update
  • Physician feedback request: UpToDate
  • Tech Tuesdays: eReferral support series
  • AI Scribe Guidance resource
  • Mental health resource for patients
  • National Rural Health Week: October 21-25
  • The Rural Voices Gathering
  • Grant program and initiatives to support rural health
  • BC Rural Health Research Exchange: November 14
  • Fraser Northwest Division webinar | Non-pharmacological pain management
  • Prince George Division / Trans Care BC online course | Gender-affirming relational practice 
  • CPSBC Safe Practice Management Conference. November 22

October 3, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • Registration reminder: Divisions Learning Session 2024
  • ADHD skills group for physicians starts October 9
  • Year-round billing options for immunizations
  • New anxiety resources on Pathways: Adult Care Pathway and Patient Toolkit
  • Eating disorder clinical care pathway for children and youth
  • External review period: Cervical cancer prevention and screening 
  • Registration reminder: CYMHSU CoP 9th Annual Gathering
  • Grant program and initiatives supporting rural health
  • BC Rural Health Research Exchange: November 14
  • The Cultural Safety Standard & Unconscious Bias in Practice with Harley Eagle
  • Empowering cultural safety and transforming end-of-life care in East Kootenay
  • Fall 2024 Journal of Family Practice Oncology Network now available
  • Health Quality BC: Health Talks student contest launch

September 18, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • PAS update
  • LFP Payment Model update
  • Nurse in Practice program kick-off sessions start in October
  • Business Pathways webinars | Clinic management and finance strategies, audits and billing
  • National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
  • September 18 webinar | The Cultural Safety Standard and unconscious bias in practice with Harley Eagle
  • Relationship building brings doctors and Indigenous community together
  • Canadian Medical Association ceremony: Apology for harms to Indigenous Peoples
  • September 24 webinar: Working with patients who use traditional medicine
  • First Nations community-based experiential learning sessions
  • EMR skill building sessions
  • Partnering to recruit and retain doctors in Bella Bella
  • CBT skills for insomnia group starting January 2025

September 4, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • September 9 deadline to register for FPSC Leadership and Management Development Program
  • Supports for integrating a nurse into family practice 
  • Business Pathways webinar: Handling harassment accusations 
  • COHP seeking physician input on child and youth mental health
  • Fraser Health’s Anxiety Toolkit Now Available
  • New alcohol use disorder care pathway: GPAC / BC Guidelines 
  • Healthy From The Start: Breastfeeding support phone line
  • Burnaby Division's Dr Baldev Sanghera receives King Charles III's Coronation Medal
  • Upcoming First Nations community-based experiential learning sessions
  • Rural Voices Gathering: November 20-27
  • New resource to support Shared Care physician learning projects
  • Shared Care call for proposals: Cancer care projects

August 21, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • LPF payment model update
  • Compensation from NNPBC for NP participation in division activities
  • Changes to JCC Pre-Forum in 2025
  • Deadline for Quality Forum 2025: Call for Abstracts
  • New care pathway: Colon polyp follow-up
  • New provincial anatomical pathology consultation requisition
  • East Kootenay Division’s Dr Greg Andreas leads the new Curiosity, Frailty, and Palliative Care project
  • Pain BC chronic pain education for divisions of family practice
  • WorkSafeBC appoints Dr Aamir Bharmal as new CMO
  • Survey | Identifying early signs of autism: Knowledge and confidence in developmental surveillance in toddlers
  • Vancouver SCAD Conference 2024
  • 9th Annual Gathering: Child and Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Community of Practice

 


August 7, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • Applications open for MOA panel management training
  • Save the date: CYMHSU CoP 9th Annual Gathering
  • Rural Voices Gathering: November 20-27
  • Seeking provider feedback: Cancer screening resources
  • BC Cancer Colon Screening Program in Northern Health
  • Building relationships in First Nations primary care
  • Putting Patients First 2024
  • We Are Allies campaign
  • Enhancing unified airway care
  • Toolkit on Pediatric Bronchiolitis

 


July 24, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • Update on FPSC team 
  • Registration open for FPSC Leadership and Management Development Program
  • Supporting BC's doctors during the 2024 wildfire season
  • LFP Payment Model update
  • New Pathways feature: Create your own email bundles
  • Cultural safety standard and unconscious bias with Harley Eagle
  • Upcoming First Nations experiential learning sessions
  • Care Plan Review Engagement Circles
  • New trial for patients with knee injuries
  • Stroke study underway

 


June 26, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • LFP Payment Model update: Facility-based care billing launch
  • Call for stories: LFP Payment Model making a difference
  • The next stage in FPSC's support for inpatient care
  • Update on FPSC Maternity Care Network Fee 
  • New supports for integrating a nurse into family practice 
  • PAS Update: June 30 deadline to claim Panel Registry Payment
  • Fee-for-service: Significant fee increases now in effect
  • PHP-JCC Peer Support Initiative seeking new physician organizations for 2024 cohort 
  • Perinatal Community of Practice pregnancy and newborn team-based care survey 
  • Clinic Security course for MOAs offered by University of the Fraser Valley

 


May 28, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • PAS Update: Panel list duplication, MOA webinars
  • Nominations open: Health Data Coalition Board of Directors
  • Reflecting on progress: Key insights from RCCbc’s 2023 annual report
  • Business Cost Premium retroactive payment and expansion date
  • PPE Portal shutting down June 30, 2024
  • Build skills for anxiety with Mind Space
  • First Link dementia support: Alzheimer Society of BC
  • New version of BalancedView now available
  • BCCDC updated Naloxone dosing recommendations and course available
  • Join the new EMR Skill-Building Sessions
  • Pharmacogenomics survey

 


May 15, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • LFP Payment Model update: Facility-based care billing start date
  • Applications now open for the Clinician Fellowship in Health Care Quality Program
  • Studying the safety of Montbretin A for diabetes
  • A palliative approach to care for persons with chronic, life-limiting conditions

 


April 30, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • LFP Payment Model update
  • RRP premium recover for PAS fees
  • New PICC line insertion fee
  • New fee: Emergency medicine reassessment
  • Supporting family physicians with electronic medical record (EMR) systems
  • Doctors of BC's Awards Month: Recognizing outstanding doctors
  • Immunize Canada pregnancy vaccination guide
  • Mind Space groups offer compassionate connection
  • FAQs and June 5 webinar: Implementing HPV-based cervical cancer screening in BC
  • Trans Care BC unveils refreshed website
  • PRA-BC info session for internationally trained family physicians
  • Provider experience study: Primary care for individuals with serious mental illness (PriSMI)

 


April 17, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • PAS update: Changes to enhance patient attachment
  • LFP Payment Model update: Transition code billing tip
  • Registration open for Divisions Learning Session on November 13
  • Helen Truran appointed Executive Director of Rural and Remote Division
     

April 3, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • PAS update: Updating panel lists
  • LFP Payment Model update: Compensation calculators for facility-based care
  • 2024 uninsured services rates and resources
  • JCC rate increases: Physician payment and mileage rate
  • BC patients’ online access to diagnostic imaging reports
  • Ask the expert: Perinatal care
  • SFU student survey
  • 2024 Lifestyle Medicine Summer Institute
  • New episodes of the Addiction Practice Pod podcast are now available to stream
     

March 19, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • PAS Update: Billing issues resolved
  • LFP Payment Model Update.
  • Doctors of BC 2023 Report to Members
  • Cardiology results electronic distribution through Excelleris
  • Clinical Point-of-Care Pathway for Children and Youth with Possible or Confirmed Eating Disorders
  • Rural Physician Research Program Grants
  • Rural Global Health Partnership Initiative
  • Gambling Support BC offers free counselling program
  • HER-BC study on midlife women and menopause
  • Having trouble sleeping?
  • Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program eight-week course (May 7–June 25) for rural BIPOC health care providers with Dr Rahul Gupta
     

March 6, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • Evolving FPSC funding supports for inpatient & long-term care: Aligning with the LFP Payment Model
  • Extension of $5,000 grant for physicians providing maternity care in hospital and long-term care services
  • Longitudinal Family Physician (LFP) Payment Model update
  • Provincial Attachment System (PAS) update
  • Fee-for-service: Amendments to obstetric fees 14105 and 14005
  • New BC gestational diabetes screening guidelines
  • New support for cancer patients
  • Registration is now open for the 2024 JCC Pre-Forum: Together We Thrive: Improving Together
  • Upcoming First Nations community-based experiential learning sessions
  • APPLAUD Action Series
  • Overview of syphilis for health care providers in BC

 


February 22, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • Recorded presentation: LFP Payment Model for facility-based care
  • Nurse in Practice program launches
  • Explore grant and funding information: From clinic upgrades to leadership training
  • Upcoming webinar: Understanding your mini practice profile
  • Retroactive payments for 2023 fee-for-service increase
  • New resource for family doctors: Sick note for employers
  • BC Adaptive mentorship network for pain, mental health and substance use
  • Emergency Care BC seeking survey participants
  • SPIDER: Research & QI collaboration improving care for complex older patients with polypharmacy

 


February 6, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • First anniversary of LFP and revised payment schedule
  • 2024 Inpatient Care Bridge Funding
  • New fees: Specialized palliative care
  • Billing for cervix screening
  • Access BC Family Doctors billing tools with two-week free trial membership
  • Health Authority Engagement Survey 2023 Results 
  • New Business Pathways article: Managing emotions and working through conflict
  • Health Quality BC: New team-based care toolkit

 


January 24, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • January 31 deadline approaching for PAS Panel Registry Payment
  • LFP Payment Model update
  • After Hours Care program pilot expansion
  • Engaging with you on digital health: Patient summaries
  • Reminder to submit 14070, 14071, 14072
  • Fee-for-service: New body mass index (BMI) surgical assist surcharge fee
  • Happening soon: Transition to HPV primary screening for cervix screening
  • New child and youth substance use clinical care pathway
  • Tips to lower your audit risk by payment model
  • Webinars and events
  • Study: Emergency medicine procedures for children and adults

 


January 10, 2024 Divisions Dispatch

  • New Jan. 31 deadline to qualify for $6500 payment
  • LFP Expansion Update
  • Forms 4.1 & 4.2 replace Form 4 for involuntary admission under BC Mental Health Act
  • New Compass Toolkit: Challenging behaviours and emotional dysregulation 
  • Quality team coaching workshop for Rural BC
  • Keynote speakers announced for 2024 JCC Pre-Forum
  • JCC webinar recordings
  • Finding Your Way in Teamwork: Team coaching principles webinar
  • UBC CPD info session ─ Maternity care education
  • UCB CPD webinar ─ Colorectal cancer current screening recommendation
  • UBC Family Medicine – BI-RADS Breast density scores survey