News
December 19, 2017
As the opioid crisis continues in BC, it’s projected that there will be more than 1,500 overdose deaths by December 31, 2017.
December 08, 2017
To help reduce the impact of retirement on physicians and their patients, a number of divisions of family practice have collected and/or created resources to help physicians prepare for retirement. These include resources that support GPs to incorporate succession planning into their practices and to optimize their practices as they move toward retirement. Additional support strategies include mentoring and matchmaking between new-to-practice doctors and retiring GPs. See here for more information.
December 08, 2017
The committee is pleased to welcome Ted Patterson as the new GPSC Ministry of Health co-chair and Dr Mitch Fagan as the a new Doctors of BC representative.
November 28, 2017
To comply with new College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) requirements for Mainpro+ certification, the PSP has reviewed and revised content for its nine learning modules. The content was reviewed extensively by a representative group of PSP regional team members, then further reviewed by the PSP Planning Scientific Committee, a group of family doctors from across BC.
November 01, 2017
At its October meeting, with input from health authority and division representatives at the table, the GPSC committed to make two important operational changes in order to improve linkages between local and regional collaborative tables and the GPSC, and to give the GPSC more flexibility as it supports turning provincial policy and strategy into action at the regional and local levels. First, the committee will decrease the frequency of its meetings from eleven to five times a year. This new schedule will be in effect after the November 2017 meeting.