Victoria Divisions of Family Practice

LTC and Maternity Grants – Eligibility for Short-term Leaves

 

To be eligible for the LTC and Maternity grants, physicians must commit to maintaining service until December 31, 2023.

FPSC is now clarifying that physicians who have a temporary absence prior to December 31, 2023 (e.g., maternity leave) but otherwise meet the eligibility requirements of the Maternity Care Network Grant or the Long-Term Care Grant, are eligible to claim the grants.

Temporary absence is defined as: a continuous absence or non-continuous reduction in working days that is not expected to occur regularly. This would most commonly include absences related to illness, parental leave, caregiving or military deployment.

In order to claim the grants, the physician must make best efforts to arrange for another care provider to provide the same scope of practice and similar days/hours of service to their maternity or long-term care patients.

Physicians who take indefinite absences (e.g. retire or depart practice in BC) prior to December 31 are not eligible to claim the grant.

For more information about the grants, please see the FPSC website. For additional support, please contact fpsc.billing@doctorsofbc.ca.

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The Divisions of Family Practice acknowledge that we work on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of many different Indigenous Nations throughout British Columbia.

Acknowledging that we are on the traditional territories of Indigenous communities is an expression of cultural humility and involves recognizing our duty and desire to support the provision of culturally safe care to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in BC.