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What’s your perspective on government’s proposed changes to health professions regulation?

December 5, 2019

Doctors of BC is seeking member input to help inform our response to the proposed changes to the health professions regulation recently announced by government. Government’s proposals are based on the recommendations in the Cayton Report, to which Doctors of BC responded earlier this year, and...
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Cayton Report

Specialist Services Committee: Patient input crucial to improve quality of care

November 29, 2019

Wendy Alston believes her mother died prematurely as a result of severe delirium. Alston remains convinced that despite the health care team’s best intentions, her active 90-year-old mother’s death was hastened by a misdiagnosis of her original symptoms, the lack of baseline information, and...
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Specialist Services Committee, Physician Quality Improvement

Doctors of BC to consult members on proposed changes to health profession regulators

November 28, 2019

Doctors of BC will soon seek member input to inform a response to the proposed changes to health professions regulations recently announced by government.

The proposed changes include: ensuring regulatory colleges put public interest and public safety ahead of professional interests, and...
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Cayton Report
DocTalks

DocTalks podcast: primary care change in BC

November 22, 2019

Doctors of BC is introducing the first podcast in a new multimedia series called DocTalks. In the series, featuring podcasts and videos, physicians offer presentations and promote dialogue on timely, relevant topics impacting the BC medical community — and the patients and families cared for by...
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DocTalks, podcast

Thousands of kids rose to the Be Active Every Day challenge

November 21, 2019

This October, BC’s physicians visited kids in elementary schools around the province to challenge them to be active for at least 60 minutes every day. The Doctors of BC 8th annual Be Active Every Day public health campaign ended, with more than 6,600 students – the highest number ever...
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Be Active Every Day