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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 ...
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 ...
News&Notes / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, April 2008
... 1. Improved physician health and well-being 2.  Improved practice function and professional satisfaction Key strategic ... care providers • Continue to align incentives and practice support with improved professional satisfaction for ... patient quality and safety are not compromised by scope of practice changes • Greater input and influence in the area ...
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 ...
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 ...
News&Notes June 2008
... with government, the BCMA established the Patterns of Practice Committee (POPC) that reviewed doctors’ billing ... analysis of claims data to identify unusual patterns of practice, and receipt of complaints from the public, ... there is a section within the practitioner profiles where practice costs are case-mix adjusted, using a methodology ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC June 2008
... that the patient continues to drive.  In over 25 years of practice in a busy emergency department I have never seen a ...
News&Notes / BY: Mel Petreman, MD, July/August 2008
... of the BCMJ. In the past 11/2 years, this five-physician practice has set about to rid itself of the paperload, ... most importantly— to increase the pleasures of medical practice…  * * * My group of five general practice associates has, since November 1979, phased-in a ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2008
... Family doctors here do a true full-service family medicine practice.”  —William Cunningham, MD Duncan  “I am ... Dr David M. Bachop Silver Medal in General Medical Practice Dr Samantha Meredith Dr David M. Bachop Gold Medal ...
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 ...