September

The 2015 winners of the Excellence in Health award are a Kelowna-based nonprofit that is teaching kids about water safety and a Victoria clinic providing women’s health care services to its local community. The award is presented in recognition of actions or initiatives that exemplify creativity and ingenuity to improve and protect the health and safety of British Columbians, and results that have brought about measurable change with potential for positive, long-term improvement.

The General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) recently introduced changes to its incentive fee codes, including some of the A GP for Me codes, to provide doctors with improved clarity about requirements to bill.

The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer is launching the largest cancer research portal of its kind in Canada, the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project.

I was absolutely shocked when I received MSP’s 1 May 2015 updated preamble C.18 regarding payment for services rendered by trainees. If you only glanced at this preamble, or skipped over it completely, let me sum it up for you: MSP wants to decrease your compensation for teaching.