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Across the province, local divisions are struggling to retain and recruit family doctors. In some communities baby-boomer family physicians are hanging up their stethoscopes faster than they can be replaced.
It’s not news to anyone that recruiting family physicians to BC is important. But how to find those doctors and convince them to move to our province is a mystery - at least to most.
Nearly 300 of BC’s primary health care leaders attended a two-day event in Richmond earlier this week for the GPSC’s Summit: Moving Forward Together.
The summary report from the GPSC Fall Summit, which took place November 28-29, 2016, is available online in a new web-based interactive format.
Primary care is changing and from now through September, all BC family doctors will have an opportunity to share their ideas about how they want to practice and care for their patients in the future.
The GPSC is making key changes to its incentive codes to aid doctors with actuated billings of GPSC incentive fee codes, particularly A GP for Me codes.
Providing physicians with professional development and educational opportunities is important for local Divisions of Family Practice throughout British Columbia.
A new health centre in Sidney is taking a team-based approach to care to support more patients with a wide range of medical needs.
Trail Times: Kootenay Boundary Division of Family Practice announced that it has launched a new set of tools to support patients living with chronic pain. Patients and their healthcare providers can now easily access information on referrals, services, education, self-management support, and more. These have been developed as part of the Kootenay Boundary Shared Care Chronic Pain Project, with the input and guidance of local physicians, allied health care practitioners, and patient partners living with chronic pain.