November 6, 2020

The Ministry of Health is asking health care providers in all facilities, including doctors in community offices, to provide medical masks to patients who enter and leave the premises. This is the result of a new policy that states patients and visitors must wear medical masks in all settings...

Mask up to slow the spread
November 3, 2020

As COVID-19 case numbers rise in BC, Doctors of BC is urging British Columbians to wear masks when indoors at public facilities and outdoors where it is difficult to physically distance.

“We all have a responsibility to protect not just ourselves, but those around us who are vulnerable,”...

Bayswater Family Practice in Kitsilano
November 2, 2020

Flu season is an annual challenge, but 2020’s vaccine rollout amid the global COVID-19 pandemic has sparked the creativity and organizational skills of physicians across BC.  Doctors are working with each other, other healthcare workers, and partners, ensuring British Columbians have access...

Joint Collaborative Committees
November 1, 2020

The JCC co-chairs recently announced that family doctors and specialists who participate in quality and system improvement activities on behalf of the collaborative committees will be compensated at the same rate, retroactive to April 1, 2019.  This applies to all JCC work that has until now...

Board appointments to committees
November 1, 2020

The Doctors of BC has over 70 committees made up of physician representatives, each with an important role to play to support the profession.   At its October meeting,  our Board of Directors approved appointments to the following committees or groups:

Statutory Negotiating...