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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Dan McCarthy, MD January/February 2008
... the Complex Care Fee introduced last spring, the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) has revised the fee. ... introduced by the GPSC as part of its Full Service Family Practice Incentive Program. Altogether these incentives are ... one piece of the GPSC’s overall strategy for supporting practice change by GPs and achieving comprehensive renewal of ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, January/February 2008
... health promotion and prevention initiatives.   Scope of practice has its own section in the report, and specifically ... We know that government is seriously looking into scope of practice regulations and we anticipate changes in the months ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD March 2008
... mental health initiative launched by the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) 1 January 2008. “The ... or by other medical professionals directly under the GP or practice group’s supervision (e.g., MOA or office nurse), ... initiative fees are payable to the general practitioner or practice group that accepts the role of being “most ...
Premise / BY: Benedikt Fischer, PhD, April 2008
... and programs—although heterogeneous in design and practice—have demonstrated that SCS can produce beneficial ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, April 2008
... visits—underlines the urgency of efforts by the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) to support BC’s family physicians. “In modern family practice, the monitoring of chronic ailments is more ... pace with the changing nature of their work, the GPSC’s Practice Support Program has developed a chronic disease ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, May 2008
... on training physicians in the north for rural and northern practice, UNBC is unique in the province.  This June will ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, May 2008
... developed by the joint BCMA/Ministry of Health General Practice Services Committee (GPSC), also supports additional training for graduating family practice residents interested in incorporating obstetrics into their practice from the start.  In Victoria, Dr Marina Thibodeau ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, June 2008
... left in the dark on major issues such as scope of practice. We must have the opportunity to engage with ... clerkships.  We also look forward to our first family practice residents next year. This will be both a challenge ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, July/August 2008
... group visits—one of four modules offered by the General Practice Services Committee’s Practice Support Program (PSP).  The Quesnel GP, who ... GP Dr Allison Rankin says group visits would work in any practice with complex or elderly patients, or those with ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, September 2008
A Practice Support Program (PSP) learning module de­signed to ... in the full module himself. “I’ve been in practice since 1995 and year after year I’ve seen a ... debating and learning from each other—I saw family practice being reinvigorated.”  A bonus effect of patient ...