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