Upcoming CME - Why an Audit?

Why an Audit: The Audit Process in BC Explained​

Presented by the newly appointed Consultant to the Patterns of Practice Committee ​
June 14 - 7:00-9:30pm @ The Beach Club Resort

**Event will be accredited: 2 MOC Section 1 and 2 Mainpro+ Study Credits

Dinner Served: 7:00pm
Presentation: 7:30-9:30pm

• Review the roles of the various parties involved in the audit process
• Describe the various types of audits
• Discuss the objectives of an audit
• Describe the scope of an audit
• Identify what can trigger an audit
• Describe the audit process from beginning to end
• Summarize the steps in the audit recovery process

New Docs Coming to Oceanside

You've likely heard the news that 2 new family physicians, a young married couple, will be joining practices in Parksville in early October.  Drs. David and Mirka Owen are currently praciticing in Terrace, B.C., but will be relocating to Oceanside in the fall.  David hails from Pembrokeshire in Wales, and his wife Mirka, fluent in 3 languages, originally comes from the Czech Republic.  We hope that you will help us in warmly welcoming them upon their arrival to our great community!  

Current Oceanside Locum Needs

For these listings, please contact either Sharon Todd, Operations and Recruitment Coordinator, or contact the clinic directly if preferred!

Dr. Henderson, Jensen Medical Clinic  

July 17-October 1, 2017

Osler 
 

Dr. Hickey Somerville, Parksville Medical Clinic  

July 10th to 21st, 2017

Med-Access 

Dr. Fridriksson, Parksville Medical Clinic

July 24th to 28th, 2017

Med-Access

Dr. Hugh Fletcher, Beach Medical

Weekly 1-5 days/week

Osler 

Please submit your locum requests to Sharon Todd to get coverage for your practice.

You can check out the current locum listings on our website!

Rural Family Practice Students - A Place to Stay?

Have you got a secondary suite or vacation suite that you aren't utilising in the fall?  

Qualicum Beach will be welcoming 2 students from McGill University who have asked to fulfill their rural family medicine clerkship in Oceanside.  Dr. Hugh Fletcher has kindly agreed to act as their preceptor, and the students will be here from Sept 25th-Oct 22nd.  If you have or know of any accommodation that may fit the bill, please do contact Sharon Todd, Recruitment and Retention Coordinator.  

Divisions Dispatch

View the latest Divisions Dispatch here

IN THIS ISSUE

• Doctors of BC offers audit seminars to divisions
• Division input needed for Impact Measurement Framework
• GPSC PMH Evaluation Framework
• Opioid agonist treatment fee codes revised April 26, 2017
• Doctors of BC news: Protecting your computers against ransomware
• Divisions website redevelopment update
• Recruitment and Retention Steering Committee updates: Committee renamed, call for Family Medicine Forum participants, April meeting highlights
• GPSC news: April meeting summary
• Prince George Division doctor outlines approach to supporting mental health patients
• North Peace Division’s team-based care work highlighted in BCMJ
• Doctors of BC news: 2017 annual general meeting
• Partner publications
• Divisions in the News

April GPSC Meeting Summary

GPSC Meeting Summary
April 24, 2017

Please find here the April GPSC meeting summary. This month’s key updates are about:

-         2017/18 work plan
-         Working groups and task groups
-         Patient engagement sessions
-         Patient experience tool
-         Division engagement Interdivisional Strategic Council events
-         Incentive program

In addition, a message has been shared through the May 1, 2017 issue of Divisions Dispatch regarding a one-time foundational payment from GPSC to divisions in response to sessional rate increases – this was endorsed at the April 25 GPSC core members meeting.

We encourage divisions to share this meeting summary, in whole or in part, with member doctors. As always, the GPSC would like to hear from you. If you have any comments or questions,  please connect with your GPSC/Community Liaison or through gpsc@doctorsofbc.ca. 


The GPSC’s next meeting is scheduled for May 29.

Pain Management Supports in Oceanside

There is an opportunity for Division members to meet with a representative of Pain BC to explore the potential for additional pain management supports in Oceanside.

Jamie Ignacia will in the area on the morning of June 5th for a prearranged meeting and would be available to meet with those interested. This may lead to an opportunity to integrate a project into ongoing Division work on Patient Medical Home in the fall. Please contact jamie@painbc.ca to arrange time and place of meeting.

BC Centre on Substance Use Online Addiction Medicine Diploma program is now live

After an extensive and purposeful collaboration between clinicians, researchers, and peer groups impacted by substance use disorder, we are pleased to announce the launch of our Online Addiction Medicine Diploma program.

This UBC CPD accredited diploma program is a free course targeted at health care professionals interested in learning more about providing care to patients with a range of substance use disorders. Each module contains a lecture given by a content expert as well as opportunities to answer knowledge testing questions. You can find the registration page here and we encourage you to share this within your networks to help spread this educational opportunity widely across the province.  I want to highlight that this is a separate online program and not the forthcoming online program training program for opioid agonist treatments for prescribers with the transition of the methadone program from CPSBC to the BCCSU later this summer

Cheyenne Johnson RN, MPH, CCRP
Clinical and Research Leader
Director, Addiction Nursing Fellowship
British Columbia Centre on Substance Use

U Vic Self-Management Health Coach Program

I am writing about our new program that may benefit your patients/clients across British Columbia. Self-Management Health Coach Program (SMHCP) is a one on one telephone support program for individuals living with chronic conditions who are lacking the motivation and confidence to be healthier. These individuals are paired with coaches based on gender and possibly shared chronic conditions to receive weekly phone calls for 3-6 months.  I have attached the information handout for more details.

Since the commencement in fall 2016, SMHCP has trained close to 100 coaches and provided coaching to 80 participants. We are actively recruiting participants as well as volunteer health coaches. Interested individuals can call us on 604-940-1273/ toll free 1866-902-3767 or register on our website www.selfmanagementbc.ca.

In assisting us to promote this great program to your patients/clients, there are printed brochures you can give out AND/OR posters to be put up in your clinics or health centres that I am happy to mail to you. Feel free to forward this information to other health professionals that may benefit from knowing the existence of SMHCP. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have further questions or need clarification. Thank you for your continuous support of Self-Management BC.

Kind regards,

Sofia Khouw
Program Coordinator – Self-Management Health Coach Program
Days of Work: Monday, Tuesday & Thursday
Direct :604-940-3573  Fax : 604-940-2099

MAiD National Conference - June 2, 2017

The National Conference on MAiD is occurring in Victoria on June 2 & 3.  There is now the option to attend by live webcast which will support physicians ability to attend:

New option to attend accredited MAiD National Conference in Victoria June 2 and 3.
For physicians not able to attend in person, the conference is pleased to announce the option of attending via live webcast. $50/d ($25 for 2 days if CAMAP member). 

REGISTER HERE

If you have further questions, please contact Rosanne Beuthin (Rosanne.Beuthin@viha.ca)

Bugs and Drugs

The Bugs & Drugs® resource is now available in a website format for BC users at the following link: www.bugsanddrugs.org. The website is available to users accessing the website from an I.P. address that is from anywhere in BC. Users can access the website from their personal or work devices as long as they have internet connectivity.  

Bugs & Drugs® is the recommended reference for management of infectious diseases and appropriate antimicrobial use. It is peer-reviewed, evidence-based, and frequently updated. Bugs & Drugs® is supported by the Do Bugs Need Drugs?® program and is funded in BC by the BC Ministry of Health, Pharmaceutical Services Division.

NRGH Discharge Summary Survey

Dear Oceanside Division Members,

As GPs and NPs receiving Discharge Summaries from NRGH, you are invited to do a quick but important survey about the information and format of these documents; in thanks for your time, if you include your name and email at the end of the survey, you'll be entered to win a $20 Starbucks gift card.

You can take the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LJ7FPFQ

Receiving providers in our community have pointed out that current discharge summaries have often lack key information that you need to provide ongoing care. Also, the launch of iHealth added significant variation into the Discharge Summaries that you are receiving. So, as part of Dr Jessica Otte's Physician Quality Improvement Project (coordinated by by Suzanne Beyrodt-Blyt, & funded through the SSC), we would like to know what parts of the discharge document are important to you.

The opinions you provide will help change what appears in discharge documents generated at NRGH, and may go on to inform discharge documentation characteristic throughout Island Health (IH). We now have an opportunity to significantly transform the Discharge Summary, with the overall aim being to ensure that the right information follows the patient when they transition out of acute care back to the community. Your input is instrumental to this process.

Many thanks,

Dr Jessica Otte, CCFP

**NOTE:  Please complete the survey by June 9th, 2017

Infant-Parent Mental Health

Family Resource Association (FRA) is bringing Jan Ference to speak about infant-parent mental health.  The FRA are pleased to extend the invitation to the community.

WHEN:  Thursday June 1st, 9-430pm
Qualicum Beach Commons Library
Cost is $35 and includes lunch.
To register, please call the Family Resource Association

at 250-752-6766.

Divisions in the News

See what is going on in other divisions around BC:

https://www.divisionsbc.ca/provincial/inthenews