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Stories of Most Significant Change: Patient, physician, and allied health perspectives on the patient medical home

GPSC's Patient Experience Tool helps physicians engage with patients

Billing education webinar: Fees that support working in teams

The GPSC is offering a billing education webinar focused on both MSP fees and GPSC incentives that support doctors… Read more

In the News

Penticton’s first Primary Care Centre officially opens

Global News: Penticton B.C.’s first Primary Care Network clinic officially opened on Friday,… Read more

Team-based family medical clinic opens in Penticton

Castanet: It’s an entirely new way to deliver healthcare in the South Okanagan. The region’s first… Read more

New centre aims to give more Victoria residents access to same-day health care

CBC: It'll be a little easier for Victoria residents without a family doctor to get medical… Read more

For the Media

Ministry of Health: Third urgent and primary care centre opens in the Interior

November 12, 2019 | People living in Vernon now have better access to team-based everyday… Read more

Vancouver Coastal Health: Urgent and Primary Care Centre opens in North Vancouver

November 3, 2019 | People on the North Shore will be able to access team-based everyday… Read more

South Okanagan Similkameen Division: More than 1,100 patients find care providers through attachment list

October 28, 2019 | In just six months, more than 1,100 patients without a family doctor in… Read more

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More than 1,100 patients find care

Oliver Chronicle: Thanks to many local solutions, more than 1,100 patients in our region have been able to find care. “I feel so incredibly lucky,” said Jan Kostek, who located a primary care provider by signing up on the SOS Division regional waitlist at www.divisionsbc.ca/sos. “Finding health care was one of our biggest concerns moving here from Edmonton,” she said. “We’d heard about the physician shortage, and we had no connections.”

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Why Is it so Hard to Find a Doctor in Vancouver?

Vancouver Magazine: Vancouver-based publicist Carine Redmond suffered a stress fracture in her foot in November 2018, an injury that impacted her day-to-day life to such a degree that, before it was diagnosed, she was offered the use of a wheelchair at Palm Springs International Airport when visiting that city one weekend. But without a family doctor—a circumstance that forces her to rely on walk-in clinics—she didn’t know it was a broken bone she was dealing with until almost a month after the pain started. “I went to five different clinics and no one would give me an X-ray,” she says. “So I had a broken foot for weeks until I begged someone—as a favour—to get me an appointment with their podiatrist.”

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