Funding Opportunities

Updated August 12, 2024

Current funding opportunities:

FPSC Transition Funding for Inpatient Care

Available from now until December 31, 2024 to help communities maintain inpatient care services during the transition to LFP-facility billing along with the evolution of FPSC supports. Application deadline: August 30, 2024. The funding and reporting requirements are posted here. 

FPSC LTCI (Long-Term Care Initiative) Most Responsible Provider Payment

Family physicians (FPs) who provide ongoing longitudinal care to patients in long-term care facilities and are participating in the FPSC Long-Term Care Initiative (LTCI) but are not eligible for the Longitudinal Family Physician (LFP) payment model can now apply to receive a LTCI MRP (Most Responsible Provider) payment. The funding and reporting requirements are posted here.

Maternity Care for BC (MC4BC)

Family doctors who currently provide (or intend to provide) maternity services, including antepartum, labour and delivery, postpartum, and/or breast-feeding care, are eligible to participate in MC4BC. Application deadline: Ongoing. The funding and registration requirements are posted here.

 

Past FPSC funding opportunities:

FPSC Long-term Care Grant

The Long-term Care Grant provided a $5000 payment to family physicians who are providing long-term care services. The grant was intended to support family physicians to maintain long-term care services until a long-term payment model is implemented for long-term care.

To be eligible for the grant, family physicians must meet all the following requirements:

  • Be actively participating in the FPSC Long-term Care Initiative (LTCI) as of April 1, 2024 and providing long-term care services according to the following best practice expectations:
    • 24/7 availability (as a collective group) and on-site attendance when required.
    • Proactive visits to residents.
    • Meaningful medication reviews.
    • Completed documentation.
    • Attendance at case conferences.
  • Provide MRP care for a minimum of five long-term care beds (as individual or as group in same long-term care facility) as of April 1, 2024.
  • Commit to maintaining long-term care services according to LTCI best practice expectations until June 30, 2024.

The application deadline was May 30, 2024. In early March 2024, FPSC emailed information about applying for the one-time Long-term Care Grant to family physicians who are actively participating in the FPSC Long-term Care Initiative and providing long-term care services. Physicians in group applications could only receive the grant once and were not eligible for additional grants. Family doctors could submit group applications for the FPSC Long-term Care Grant. Doctors working in teams to provide MRP (most responsible physician) care for five or more long-term care beds in the same long-term care facility (as of April 1, 2024) were eligible to claim a single collective grant of $5000. The group must designate a single doctor to receive the grant, which could then be distributed based on the group's internal arrangement. Applications must include the names and MSP numbers of all physicians in the group. For more information, see the FPSC Long-term Care Grant FAQs (updated February 12, 2024). 

FPSC Maternity Care Network Grant

The Maternity Care Network Grant provided $5000 to family physicians who actively participated in the FPSC Maternity Care Network Initiative and who committed to continuing to participate in the FPSC Maternity Care Network Initiative until June 30, 2024. The grant is intended to support family physicians to maintain maternity care services in hospital until a long-term payment model is implemented for maternity care in hospital.

The application deadline was May 30, 2024. In early March 2024, FPSC emailed information about applying for the maternity grant to family physicians who are actively participating in the FPSC Maternity Care Network Initiative.

FPSC Funding for PCN Perinatal Planning

The application deadline was January 9, 2023. FPSC made $1-million in funding available to divisions of family practice to support a process for engaging family doctors in planning to optimize and integrate tier-1 maternity and newborn services into current and future PCNs. Divisions were permitted to carry over PCN Perinatal Community Integration funding to the end of 2023/24. Divisions who have not yet applied for this funding were encouraged to send in their applications by March 31, 2023. Funding must be used by March 31, 2024.