The Joint Collaborative Committees (JCCs) welcomed back Harley Eagle for a webinar that provided an introductory overview of one of our province’s foundational documents on Indigenous Cultural Safety: the BC Cultural Safety Standard.
Dr Vitaliy Kubatskyy thought he had close to 2,000 patients when he took over a full-sized practice in the Cowichan Valley seven years ago.
To ensure he had the most up-to-date numbers on his patient panel, he enlisted the help of a coach from the FPSC’s Practice Support Program (PSP). PSP coaches across the province offer services to help family physicians more effectively manage their patient panel and how they use different health technologies in practice.
Monday, September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which honours survivors of residential schools, the children who never returned home, and their families and communities. It is also a day to reflect on and support the commitment to Truth and Reconciliation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Doctors of BC Joint Clinical Committees (JCCs) Department, led by Joanna Richards, Executive Vice President, has evolved its staffing structure to more closely reflect the structure of the three JCCs: Family Practice Services Committee (FPSC), Specialist Services Committee (SSC) and Shared Care Committee (SCC).
FPSC and partners have prepared a group of supports to help primary care clinics integrate a nurse into practice. The supports are particularly helpful for practices participating in the Ministry of Health’s Nurse in Practice Program and provide a step-by-step guide through the process.
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May 19 is World and BC Family Doctors Day, and we gratefully acknowledge and celebrate the work of our family doctors, both locally and around the world.
Thank you for your incredible contributions to primary care, your compassion and strength, and your unwavering commitment and dedication to your patients in this time of constant change and transformation.