News
September 24, 2018
Work is underway to increase team-based supports for patients across the province. Adding teams of health professionals helps family doctors’ practices operate at an ideal level as a patient medical home. Team-based care is also central to primary care networks – a clinical network of providers in the community who work together to support patients.
August 20, 2018
In light of the PCN work that underway across the province, many family doctors are partnering with nurses in their practices to ease pressures and improve patient access to comprehensive care that best meets their needs. Read more on the Doctors of BC website.
August 15, 2018
The GPSC is asking family doctors who currently use or have used the GPSC fees to complete a short survey to make sure the fees support doctors in their practice. Physician responses will help the GPSC develop billing education supports that will aim to provide better understanding of how to appropriately bill GPSC incentives in practice. Click here to start the survey, which will take about 15 minutes to complete. Participation is voluntary and anonymous.
August 01, 2018
With the implementation of primary care networks (PCNs) across the province, the Ministry of Health is forming a new Primary and Community Care Policy Implementation Committee (PCCPIC) to oversee the various aspects of implementation of PCNs and an integrated system of primary and community care across the province. The committee will be established in September 2018 and stand until March 31, 2020. It may be renewed at that time, at the discretion of the Ministry of Health.
July 12, 2018
As part of their work on the Residential Care Initiative, South Okanagan Similkameen division doctors began undertaking meaningful medication reviews in local facilities. The resulting changes to patients’ prescriptions caused an increase in the number of medications being returned to pharmacies for disposal—an issue physicians soon realized could be solved by a simple policy change impacting how medications are ordered during the prescribing process.