Update on FPSC Transition Funding and On-Call/ Availability Funding for Inpatient Care

Update on FPSC Transition Funding and On-Call/ Availability Funding for Inpatient Care
Today we’re providing you with important updates about FPSC supports for inpatient care, following up on the information communicated in the June 7 FPSC Special Update.

Short-Term FPSC Transition Funding for Inpatient Care

• In response to feedback from divisions of family practice, FPSC is providing temporary transitional funding from now until December 2024.
• This time-limited funding consolidates and replaces the bridge and stabilization funding and the additional transition funding supports that were previously announced for October to December.
• This funding must be used to maintain, not increase, physician compensation from divisions. It should be used, if needed, to support on-call availability, unassigned inpatient care networking, physician recruitment, or other activities not currently covered by the LFP Payment Model.

FPSC On-Call/Availability

• On-Call/Availability Funding for Inpatient Care: Paused until January 2025.
• On-Call/Availability Funding for Long-Term Care: Remains available from July 1, 2024.
• Physicians providing on-call availability for long-term care and inpatient care at the same time may receive the long-term care on-call payment and inpatient care transition funding until December 31, 2024.
• There is no change to the MOCAP maternity availability payments.

What you need to do:

• For more information about Transition Funding for Inpatient Care, visit FPSC's Inpatient Care page.
• Visit the Doctors of BC website (login required) for the LFP Payment Model inpatient calculator, and the BC Family Doctors website (login required) for the simplified fee guide, FAQs, and additional useful tools.

Next steps:

Over the next few months, divisions of family practice will be supported to work with their members and with health authorities to evolve inpatient delivery models as needed for January 2025 onwards in response to funding changes.

FPSC will continue to engage with you and with the divisions as these supports evolve.

Doctors of BC, BC Family Doctors, and the Ministry of Health will discuss and address longer-term supports and approaches to issues raised by community family physicians providing inpatient care.

More information:

For more information, please see the funding parameters on the FPSC website, or contact fp.billing@doctorsofbc.ca

Pathways PCN Pharmacy Program

We are excited to announce that Pathways has recently begun collaborating with PCN Pharmacy Program to pilot the new Pathways Message Feature, a new feature that allows you to send messages directly to your PCN pharmacist for brief advice about medication questions.

Easily send your question by clicking the 'Send message' button found on the profile and fill out the form.
You can watch this demo on how to send a message.

For our Oceanside Members:

Here is a link to Corey Jefferies, your Oceanside PCN Pharmacist’s profile: https://pathwaysbc.ca/specialists/10027

For our Port Alberni Members:

Here is a link to Taylor Setterfield, your Port Alberni PCN Pharmacist’s profile: https://pathwaysbc.ca/specialists/9748

Please note that the Pathways Message Feature is not intended for referrals, and to continue to use existing referral pathways for patients to be seen and assessed by the PCN pharmacist.

Feel free to reach out to us should you have any questions.

Mike Rock
Project Coordinator
778-201-3922
mrock@pathwaysbc.ca
pathwaysbc.ca

Attachment of patients to GP and NPs in Central Island

Recently a staff member from Central Island Division received a phone call from one of our community members who was talking to a friend who informed her that they had gone to Oceanside Health Centre for treatment and expressed to the front desk person that they had no doctor and needed one. The OHC person tried to handle it by suggesting they call up 811. But this person was persistent and repeated her request that "someone find her a doctor". As she was leaving the front desk person slipped her a piece of paper telling her there was a new doctor in Parksville and go there and ask to join the clinic.
So, this person did, and the clinic accepted them and their partner. This brought the community member a great deal of frustration because they had been waiting 5 years for a family practitioner.
Clearly the process for attachment was ignored and someone managed to get to “the front of the line” before community members who had been waiting a long time.
I have reached out to OHC leadership, and they are working with front line staff to understand that the correct process is to send unattached patient to 811 to join the Health Connect Registry.
From the Central Island clinician side, it is important that MOAs, GPs and NPs also follow this process when community members ask to join a clinic. I understand what a caring community this is, and how we all want to help but in the spirit of equity to community members who have been waiting extended periods to find a family practitioner, it is imperative that the message should be the same in all clinics.
THEY SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO 811 TO REGISTER AND GET ONTO THE WAITING LIST.
Going forward, please work with clinic staff and care providers to support patients in getting onto the Health Connect Registry and not assist them in jumping the queue.
If you require help regarding this process, please reach out to Central Island Division to manage the interaction. Happily, we have a new Attachment Coordinator starting in September and she will be happy to assist.
Thanks for helping out with this – it is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions or concerns do not hesitate to contact me.

Evelyn Clark
Executive Director
250-703-6159

LTCI Learning Series – Wound Infections in LTC (Sept 26)

LTCI Learning Series - Wound Infections in Long-term Care
Date & Time: September 26, 2024  at 5:00 PM 
Description: Join us for a presentation on wound infections with Clinical Nurse Specialist Educator Erin Ballard!

Who should Attend?
This presentation is open to physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals practicing in Long-term care.

Learn how to diagnose and treat local and spreading wound infections topically and systemically for improved wound outcomes.

Please feel free to share the invite widely.

Please click here to register.

Gender Affirming Care CME

Event Date & Time:
Thursday, September 12th, 2024, 1800-2000 PST

This session has been accredited by UBC CPD for
2.0 MainPro+Group learning credits by the College of Family Physicians of Canada

Please RSVP by September 9th, 2024
Pre-Registration is Required
TO REGISTER: Click here

Staying informed: CAMAP’s Canadian MAiD Curriculum

Canadian Association of MAiD Assesors and Providers

To visit our website please click here. 

The Canadian MAiD Curriculum (CMC) is the first nationally accredited, comprehensive, bilingual educational program to support the practice of MAiD in Canada.

CAMAP has launched 24 free CMC fall sessions and a new Events webpage. These sessions will be free of charge and open for clinicians (licensed physicians and nurse practitioners) to register and attend. We are confident that this will be a fantastic opportunity for your clinician audience to enhance their knowledge on MAiD. CAMAP is also an invaluable resource for clinicians. In addition to the CMC, we also provide networking and other education opportunities that support their understanding of MAiD.

Canadian MAiD Curriculum
Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers
Email: cmc@camapcanada.ca

Oceanside Hospice Society

The Oceanside Hospice Society serves individuals and families experiencing end-of-life, care-giving and bereavement in the area stretching from Deep Bay to Nanoose, and west to Errington and Whiskey Creek
We strive to provide links in the continuum of care by supporting care giving at home, in hospital or the palliative care unit at Trillium and at community care facilities.
Please contact us at 250.752.6227 or visit www.oceansidehospice.com for further information.

Divisions Dispatch

The latest news from the provincial team and complementary organizations.

Please click here for updates including:

• LFP Payment Model updates
• Updated BC Cancer screening report titles
• Divisions invited to meet with BC Cancer Cervix Screening Program to prepare for transition from cytology to HPV primary screening
• East Kootenay family doctor develops guide to reducing environmental impact of health care
• July 19 webinar | Antidepressants and substance use
• July 20 webinar | Updates on risks and harms of alcohol use
• Opioid use disorder training for doctors and their clinical teams: LOUD in PC Collaborative
   

Divisions in the News

Divisions in the News
See what is going on in other divisions around BC:

https://divisionsbc.ca/provincial/news-and-events