News
May 10, 2019
Across BC, more and more family practices are making the move towards team-based care. Not only does having a group of medical professionals working collaboratively from the same office help doctors optimize their time, a team approach improves patient care by giving them access to broader depth and breadth of support in one place.
May 08, 2019
Watch the 90-second video below about how an Abbotsford family doctor and his MOA are using their data for proactive care and practice improvements, including: flagging more patients who need chronic disease management. keeping medications up to date. catching incentive fee billings they missed in the past. Read the full story.
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: