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Doctors Today and Tomorrow: Planning British Columbia’s Physician Workforce

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physician supply, surplus, shortage, physician resource, workforce planning, recruitment and retention
July 2011
Professional Satisfaction | Policy Paper
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Doctors of BC Position: Physician workforce planning is key to meeting the evolving health needs of the BC population. Doctors of BC recommends establishing a multi-stakeholder committee including Doctors of BC, the Ministry of Health, and health authorities to better coordinate the development of physician resource plans and identify short and long term physician resource priorities. Workforce planning needs to be supported by a provincial framework for needs-based physician resource planning and a physician workforce database to provide a baseline for future planning.

Improving Access to Acute Care Services

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access to care, acute care, beds, wait times, delays, burnout, capacity, complex care, hospital admissions, overcrowding, recruitment and retention
August 2008
Access to Care | Policy Paper
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Doctors of BC Position: Doctors of BC supports a number of recommendations on improving acute care services in BC. Efforts to improve access to acute care must focus on establishing wait time benchmarks for acute care, increasing supply of acute care beds, managing beds effectively, investing in community-based care, and improving government accountability. To better predict areas of need and to better allocate acute care resources, additional data collection and modelling is needed that is based on the realities of the practice setting and should be developed in collaboration with practicing physicians.