Updated October 10, 2024
Current funding opportunities:
FPSC Transition Funding for Inpatient Care
Available until March 31, 2025 to help communities maintain inpatient care services during the transition to LFP-facility billing along with the evolution of FPSC supports. The application deadline was 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) and are not enrolled in 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.
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Past FPSC funding opportunities:
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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. For more information, please see the May 2023 communication.
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 was 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. For more information, see the May 2023 communication and the Maternity Care Network Grant FAQs (Updated March 1, 2024).
FPSC Funding for PCN Perinatal Planning
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. The application deadline was January 9, 2023 and funding must have been used by March 31, 2024.