May

Guidelines

The Anxiety Disorders Association of British Columbia (AnxietyBC) has launched a free online anxiety management toolkit and step-by-step guide for parents of children with anxiety—My Anxiety Plan (M.A.P.) for children. The tools in M.A.P. are created using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and M.A.P. can be used to manage 11 different anxiety and anxiety-related disorders.

The fourth edition of the Guidelines for the Economic Evaluation of Health Technologies: Canada from the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), informs decisions made about who covers payment for medications, medical devices, and methods of treating and diagnosing Canadian patients. The guidelines set out the best practices for determining the economic value of health technologies, compared with existing approaches.

Opioid agonist therapy supports are available through the GPSC and Pharmacare to address pain management and opioid prescribing. These include:

GPSC fee code G14074 (GP Unattached Complex/High Needs Patient Attachment Fee)
This fee compensates for the time, intensity, and complexity of integrating a new patient with high needs, including mental health and substance use patients, into a family physician’s practice. For more information, please refer to the GPSC’s attachment billing guide.[1]

New UBC research on bacteria that cause major problems for those with cystic fibrosis reveals clues to how it proliferates for so long in the lungs and offers new ideas for treatments to explore.