longitudinal care

Joint Collaborative Committees - Cultural safety, longitudinal care, physician engagement

JCC principles include cultural safety, longitudinal care, and 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...
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JCCs, Joint Collaborative Committees, cultural safety, longitudinal care, physician engagement
longitudinal care

Virtual care – how will it change the way we practice?

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...
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virtual care, COVID-19, longitudinal care
Longitudinal Care

Family physicians receive payment to support 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...
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longitudinal care, gpsc