collaboration

New policy statement addresses the challenges to surgical care

November 28, 2022

More than 80,000 patients in BC are waiting for surgery, with more added to waitlists every day. Many have already waited far longer than the federal government’s benchmark limit of 26 weeks, others have been waiting for over a year. And these long wait times are impacting surgical outcomes and...

policy statement, surgery, wait times, collaboration, access to care

I’d Love to Change the World (but I don’t know what to do) - Ten Years After

September 1, 2020

At this stage of the Covid pandemic, I think we’d all like to change the trajectory of where we are heading as a community, as a nation, and how we are to live our lives over the next few years…if only we knew how. Hard to do in the absence of any certainties. I also think we can agree that...

COVID-19, virtual care, health inequities, collaboration

Doctors of Innovation and Change

February 27, 2018

One of the benefits of being president that I enjoy, is the opportunity to attend many meetings and events that often show case some amazing work of doctors across the province. I also get to meet many of these accomplished doctors whom I would never encounter otherwise. Everywhere I go I...

collaboration, facility engagement, Joint Collaborative Committees