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April 24, 2019

Team-based care offers many benefits for family doctors throughout BC. Having access to other health care providers to help with patient care can free up doctors to the work they love to do, including to focus on medical diagnoses and patient relationships, while ensuring patients get timely access to continuous, coordinated primary care. The GPSC is assisting doctors to both optimize and enhance patient care through participation in team-based care opportunities as they start to expand across BC. Tools and supports include:

April 24, 2019

An innovation in adult mental health care developed by BC doctors is changing the way GPs practice medicine, and changing patients’ lives. Its success has inspired Nova Scotia family physicians to adopt it widely across the province in 2018.

April 15, 2019

Dozens of participants continue to join the GPSC and SGP’s three-part billing webinars for new-to-practice and new to-BC GPs. First presented in winter 2019, the three-part series is now being offered again in the spring. Click here for details. The fulsome discussions and engagement have been distilled as summaries that compile the questions and answers discussed:

April 12, 2019

Doctors of BC members are invited to attend the 2019 annual general meeting (AGM) on Friday, May 31, 2019 at the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre (UBC Campus, 6163 University Blvd, Vancouver). The AGM will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Jack Poole Hall, with onsite registration available from 3:15 p.m. onwards, for members in good standing.

March 25, 2019

In response to the overwhelming amount of interest in the billing webinar series for new-to-practice GPs earlier this year, the GPSC and SGP are pleased to present their three-part series again in the spring. For this series, a new-to-practice GP is: