Rural clinicians managing a critical care situation face challenges distinct from — and often more complex than — those of caring for the same patient in an urban setting.
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- Government eliminates routine sick notes |
- Residents immerse themselves in rural medicine |
- Jared Basil: Empowering Cultural Safety and Working to Transform End-of-Life Care |
- Truth & Reconciliation |
- Division doctors receive King Charles III's Coronation Medal |
- Compensation from NNPBC for NP participation in division activities |
- East Kootenay Division’s Dr Greg Andreas leads the new Curiosity, Frailty, and Palliative Care project |
- Applications open for MOA panel management training |
- Update on FPSC Transition Funding and On-Call/ Availability Funding for Inpatient Care |
- New supports for integrating a nurse into family practice |
- Updated FPSC supports for inpatient care |
- Divisions Learning Session on November 13 |
- Nurse in Practice program launches |
- After Hours Care program pilot is evolving |
- Encompass Pregnancy Care Cranbrook welcomes local midwives to the pregnancy care team |
- Funding extensions for inpatient care, maternity care in hospital, and long-term care |
- New pilot program offers after hours care for attached patients of family doctors and nurse practitioners in four BC regions |
- Refreshed approach to Primary Care Networks |
- Doctors Awards |
- Divisions Dispatch - Updates to summer schedule |
- New web portal for easy access to divisions logos |
- FPSC meeting summary |
- Updated division letterhead and PPT templates |
- Building a women’s health clinic in Surrey-North Delta |
- Update: Refreshing PCN governance |
- GPSC’s new name is Family Practice Services Committee (FPSC) |
- GPSC extends in-patient bridge funding to March 2024 |
- Engagement Toolkit: Request for tools and resources from divisions |
- New GPSC funding to PCN communities for planning maternity and newborn services |
- New additions to the primary care communications team at Doctors of BC |
- Registration open for GPSC Leadership and Management Development Program - Cohort 13 |
- Update: Practice Support Program |
- Preoperative care improves health for patients before and after surgery |
- Upcoming DivisionsBC Website Update – January 15-16, 2022 |
- GPSC expands inpatient care bridge funding for one year |
- 2021-22 Influenza immunization program update from the Ministry of Health |
- New training program accepting applications: panel management training for medical office staff |
- Division of Family Practice Membership: Opportunity to receive funding for NPs |
- Inaugural Issue: Collaborate on Health in BC, a new magazine featuring stories of physician-led innovations |
- Sunshine Coast task force tackles opioid deaths |
- Rural doctors rise to the challenge during COVID-19 |
- Dr Lawrence Yang featured in podcast about physician burnout |
- Fall / winter 2020 physician payment: Pandemic planning work for health authorities, Medical Staff Associations and divisions |
- DivisionsBC.ca updated to improve accessibility |
- List your practice on the Pathways Medical Care Directory |
- Dr David May: Collaboration key to creation of Powell River assessment center |
- Dr Pardeep Dhillon: Supporting vulnerable patients who don’t have access to technology |
- GPSC funding for divisions to support COVID-19 fall/winter framework |
- Ministry of Health's Primary Care COVID-19 Response Framework for 2020 |
- Message to divisions on flu immunization |
- Health Data Coalition and Practice Support Program partner to support physicians |
- June 1 billing changes. GPSC / BC Family Doctors webinar recording available. |
- Recommendations on re-opening offices and clinics from Doctors of BC |
- Virtual care resources: Webinars and support sessions, Zoom resources, eFaxing subsidy |
- DTO virtual care huddles invite divisions to discuss their technology and support needs |
- Division-created COVID-19 resources |
- Returning to full practice capacity - DTO webinar and supports |
- BC updates COVID-19 testing guidelines |
- Virtual care webinars and resources |
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) updates from Doctors of BC |
- April 1 GPSC incentive fee changes |
- GPSC update: PCNs by the numbers |
- Family physicians receive payment to support longitudinal care |
- Upcoming webinar about team-based care billing |
- 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 |
- Multi-division partnership means optimal care for mental health and substance use patients in Northern Gulf Island rural communities |
- RNs in practice: Supporting vulnerable patients in Fraser Northwest |
- FNW clinical counselling initiative: Reducing physician burnout and improving access to care |
- HDC Data Tools Webinar. October 23 |
- PCN Implementation guide now available |
- Webinar series: Learn more about billing GPSC fees |
- Improving access and meeting patient needs: PMH success in Prince George |
- Webinar series: data tools that support practices and communities |
- Technology meets teamwork: Panel management in Langley |
- Public Pathways: A new option for sharing community health resources and information |
- Kootenay Boundary Wellness Project supports good mental health for doctors |
- Team-based care: The best thing about practising on Gabriola Island |
- GPSC and SGP host billing webinars for new-to-practice GPs |
- Provincial support enables expanded services at Maple Ridge Youth Wellness Centre |
- Shared Care Committee: Polypharmacy Risk Reduction |
- Burnaby Division's Empowering Patients series |
- Multi-division learning in the Fraser Region: Leading PCNs from Burnaby to Hope |
- The Campbell River Maternity Clinic: Accessible, culturally safe care for all North Island women |
- New Divisions website launch and training |
- If you build it, health care providers (and patients) will come |
- Article on SOS Division medication wastage study published in BC Medical Journal |
- What new doctors want: Attracting med school grads and GP residents to practice in BC |
- Team-based care: Family doctors and nurses partner to improve patient care in BC communities |
- GPSC Co-chair Dr Shelley Ross receives Silver Medal of Service award |
- GP credits Nanaimo Division’s Suboxone Physician E-Mentor Program with improving patient’s life |
- GPs partner with nurses to support homebound frail elderly seniors |
- Primary care teams support frail seniors |
- Care for frail seniors: How one nurse changed the system |
- Co-designing community care teams to transform care |
- Primary care teams keep frail elderly patients out of the ER |
- New fees, updated guidelines support treatment of opioid use disorder |
- NIRD/Northern Health videoconferencing project improves access to care in rural communities |
- Campbell River Division doctor wins international leadership award |
- Division GPs among recent BCCFP award recipients |
- Advance Care Planning in FNW: GP collaboration improves dignity and quality of life for patients |
- South Island: Belmont Secondary, Royal Bay Secondary, and Edward Milne Community School |
- Shuswap North Okanagan: Sullivan Campus of Salmon Arm Secondary |
- Northern Interior Rural: Nechako Valley Secondary School Clinic |
- Barsby and Nanaimo District Secondary School Wellness Centres |
- Chilliwack Division supports student-developed overdose advice app |
- Team-based approach helps new physician settle in Keremeos |
- PNW division member Dr Jaco Strydom wins College Coin award |
- Pacific Northwest doctors use team-based approach to support patients with metabolic syndrome |
- NIRD family doctors collaborate with partners to improve health outcomes for Vanderhoof youth |
- From concept to CME: Division-organized opioid and pain management education sessions |
- New primary care social worker program in FNW region replicates successful ”Nurse Debbie" model |
- New instructional video and reference card for PLS phone translation service |
- North Shore Division collaboration with VCH highlighted by CFPC |
- Salt Spring Island Suicide Intervention Toolkits featured in BC Medical Journal |
- Changes to CPSBC physician directory |
- Physician team relocating to Vancouver Island thanks to multi-division collaboration |
- Award win recognizes GPSC co-chair’s leadership, commitment to excellence |
- Interdisciplinary approach to care creates sense of community, benefits patients and providers |
- A sense of community benefits patients and providers |
- PMH practice assessment event provides valuable GP engagement opportunity |
- Innovative ways divisions are getting to “yes” on Section 41 |
- Divisions of family practice support physicians in improving access to care for transgender patients |
- Divisions are advocating for mental wellness through MDs4Wellness groups |
- Opioid treatment and management practice resources |
- Award wins for two Vancouver Division family doctors |
- A trio of safe, welcoming clinics open in southern Vancouver Island schools |
- Shuswap North Okanagan school-based clinic will improve access to care for rural students |
- Enhanced MOA role improves practice efficiency and patient care, supports team-based model of care |
- Family physicians and dietitians collaborate to support patients in Abbotsford |
- Team-based care attracts new physician to South Okanagan-Similkameen region |
- Resourcefulness supports teams and outreach to small communities |
- Life is better in team-based care |
- Engagement and collaboration set foundation for proof-of-concept journey |
- Patient medical homes in rural BC |
- Doctors and community embrace alternative funding model |
- Salt Spring Island Suicide Intervention Toolkits featured in BC Medical Journal |
- Seniors new to Kelowna find a doctor through Mobile Assessment Unit |
- GP-RN partnership in Maple Ridge supports overall patient health |
- Abbotsford division connects patients to care through FindADoctorAbbotsford.ca |
- North Peace Division tells recruits “come for the job, stay for the community” |
- Seven family physicians relocate to Abbotsford in 18 months |
- Kootenay Boundary: Health care teams work side by side improving residential care |
- GPSC Summit celebrates A GP for Me and moving forward together |
- GPSC Fall Summit: Summary report now online, with new interactive format |
- How often do you get a chance to help shape your own future? |
- GPSC fee codes change to help doctors with billing |
- CME events engage members and non-members in local community |
- New model and networks support better care for patients, attract new physicians |