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News September 2020
The BC government has introduced amendments to the Mental Health ... care following an overdose. Based on the advice of the BC Children’s Hospital and other child and youth advocates, ... community. For more information, visit https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020MMHA0032-001139 . News Stabilization care ...
Obituaries / BY: R.L. Moore, MD, FRCPC November 2020
... Hospital from 1984–86, sat on the executive of the BC Anesthesiologists’ Society from 1982–87 (including as ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Alana Godin March 2020
... to transform primary care and ensure that all patients in BC have access to quality primary health care that meets ...
News May 2020
... Office and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC’s Physician Practice Enhancement Program. It outlines: ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD July/August 2020
... I stepped into the role of president-elect for Doctors of BC in 2018, I could not have foreseen that my election would ... pandemic. I took up this post as I believed in Doctors of BC’s organizational vision (expressed in the Strategic ... statement: “Better Together. Making a Difference for BC Doctors.” While these proclamations may at first blush ...
News, COVID-19 October 2020
Doctors with community offices in BC have invested time and expense to re-open their practices ... COVID-19 COVID-19 office safety plan support grant for BC’s community physicians ...
News December 2020
The BC government is implementing its Hospital at Home program across BC over the next few months to provide acute care services to ...
Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2020
... and healthy way to deliver quality care. Doctors of BC members identified these as among the most significant ... Services Committee (GPSC), a partnership of Doctors of BC and the BC government, has over the years introduced various ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Derek C. Chang, MD April 2020
... died as a result. Due to the number of fatal overdoses, BC’s life expectancy has fallen for the first time in ... organizations, such as Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of BC,[ 1 ] Moms Stop the Harm,[ 2 ] the Canadian Association of ... heroin, and decreased criminal activities. Locally, the BC Centre on Substance Use published an evidence-based ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Chiam, RPh June 2020
... and generic), whether a medication is covered by specific BC PharmaCare plans, and whether special authority is first ... met before PharmaCare coverage could begin. Unfortunately, BC PharmaCare policy does not permit retroactive ...