The Ministry of Health, Doctors of BC, and BC Family Doctors through the Primary Care Compensation Working Group (PCCWG) are responsible for the LFP Payment Model and the new Comprehensive Care Payment (CCP).
FPSC has been notified that the PCCWG needs more time to finalize the design and implementation of the CCP. As a result, the CCP launch will be delayed beyond the previously announced April date.
The Joint Collaborative Committees (JCCs), in partnership with Len Pierre Consulting and First Nation communities, will be hosting an interactive session to encourage ongoing learning and relationship building between participants and Indigenous communities.
As digital health care tools continue to evolve, it has never been more important to ensure you and your medical staff know how to best protect personal patient data. To support physicians and teams, Doctors of BC’s Family Practice Services Committee, has partnered with the University of the Fraser Valley to provide medical office assistants (MOAs) with the opportunity to learn how to protect patient information in their clinics.
When Burnaby family physician Dr Geetha Samuel has a dilemma in her clinic, she knows who to call: Practice Improvement Coach Sophia Tanaka.
Dr Krystine Sambor says she has richer conversations with her patients and is less drained doing paperwork, thanks in part to the use of AI scribe.
Dr James Card believes that if you train medical residents in rural communities, they will stay.
BC’s After Hours Care program is making a difference for people and physicians, by connecting people to the care they need when their family physician is not available and removing a top burden experienced by physicians.
Doctors and health care teams in rural communities throughout Canada are being celebrated this week as part of Canada's first National Rural Health Week Oct. 21-25, 2024. Rural primary care is a vital part of health care in BC, with several divisions of family practice serving rural areas.
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.