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Brian Winsby, MD
The GPSC’s Residential Care Initiative (RCI) was launched in 2014, with the goal of improving care for one of BC’s most vulnerable populations—seniors living in care facilities.[1] All divisions of family practice are... Read More
I read the letter to the editor in your September issue titled “MSP: Changes to compensation for teaching” [BCMJ 2015;57:275] with great concern as it contained some significant factual errors that may cause... Read More
The GPSC’s residential care initiative is designed to enable physicians to develop local solutions that improve the care of patients in residential care facilities. Five divisions of family practice began prototyping... Read More
Residential care in BC is facing critical challenges. Residential care patients make up less than 1% of BC’s population and consume approximately 25% of the combined budgets for MSP, Pharmacare, acute care, and home and... Read More
In February 2013, the BC Medical Association and the Ministry of Health announced the development of the In-patient Care program, an innovative approach to supporting continuous physician-patient relationships in BC.... Read More