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September 16, 2024
The Longitudinal Family Physician (LFP) Payment Model is proving effective at recruiting and retaining family physicians. Vancouver family physician Dr Lucy Nee expects she will continue caring for patients for another eight to 10 years—partly because she can bring in UBC Family Practice residents training in her office who later become her locums to share the work.
September 16, 2024
The Longitudinal Family Physician (LFP) Payment Model has encouraged more new-to-practice family physicians to hang their own shingle. A research study at the University of British Columbia's Family Practice medical residency found more residents are considering their own family practice because they feel more valued for their time, can work within their own schedules and still be compensated appropriately.
September 16, 2024
A new Whistler 360 Health Collaborative is connecting more patients with doctors throughout the Sea-to-Sky corridor. More than 10,000 patients in Whistler now have a family doctor, while the number of family physicians has also doubled since the clinic opened last year, thanks in part to the Longitudinal Family Physician (LFP) Payment Model.
July 29, 2024
FPSC is accepting applications for medical office staff to take the Panel Management for Family Practice program through the University of Fraser Valley. The Fall 2024 cohort is accepting applications until August 14, 2025. The program consists of five modules with a final quality improvement project implemented in-practice.
July 09, 2024
Registered nurses are helping to enhance patient care in the Fraser Northwest Primary Care Network (PCN). About 38 registered nurses (RNs) work within patient medical homes—family practices that provide longitudinal patient care—in four specific PCNs: New Westminster, Port Coquitlam, Southwest and Southeast Coquitlam, and North Coquitlam, Port Moody, Anmore and Belcarra. PCN director Michiko Mazloum says registered nurses provide additional services that weren’t offered by clinics before such as baby immunizations and other injections.