Joint Collaborative Committees - Cultural safety, longitudinal care, physician engagement
September 25, 2020

The Joint Collaborative Committees, a partnership of Doctors of BC and the BC Ministry of Health, continue to play a key role in ensuring physicians are leaders and have a voice in building a stronger health care system that provides quality patient care. 

The work of the JCCs is grounded...

longitudinal care
June 22, 2020

“Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water”.


Sister Margaret Dyer baths a newborn baby at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, 1942. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Many of us may have been taught that this phrase referred to the medieval...

Longitudinal Care
January 15, 2020

The General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) has introduced the Community Longitudinal Family Physician (CLFP) Payment as another important step in supporting the vital contribution of longitudinal care to improve outcomes for patients and the health system.  

The annual, ongoing CLFP...