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COVID-19
The pandemic has exposed Canada’s internet problem
Canada’s public health data meltdown
The year of the pandemic has busted the myth that Canada values its seniors
Is it OK to mix and match different vaccines?
This is your brain on pandemic: What chronic stress is doing to us
The Myth of Universal Health Care
Why Canada’s decision to delay 2nd doses of COVID-19 vaccines may not work for everyone
Why restricting AstraZeneca vaccines in Canada means balancing ‘vaccine risk vs. disease risk’
A behind-the-scenes look at why Canada delayed 2nd doses of COVID-19 vaccines
COVID-19 outbreak at British Columbia long-term care home includes vaccinated residents
The Second COVID-19 Shot Is a Rude Reawakening for Immune Cells
COVID-19 outbreak at British Columbia long-term care home includes vaccinated residents
Ottawa proposes $7B top-up to transfers for health care, infrastructure
Why it might be best to avoid painkillers as a precaution before your COVID-19 vaccine
Grief support programs: teaming up to achieve more
Seniors suffering from total isolation in B.C. care homes
Dying for love: Disconnection in the time of COVID-19
People More Likely to Keep Their Distance If You’re Wearing a Mask
People with dementia among hardest hit by COVID-19 health restrictions
Expert bashes BC for COVID-19 Data Gaps
ICU deaths fall at St. Paul’s
PRIVATE For PROFIT/Corporations
Private virtual health services are booming in a ‘policy vacuum’
Profits Before Patients? The Corporate Push into BC’s Primary Care System
Why Are Corporations Moving into Health Care? Doctors Say It’s the System’s Fault
Corporations Want Your Health Records. Who’s Keeping Them Safe?
What Happens When Health Care Becomes a Stock Market Play?
How BC Can Fix Primary Health Care, With or Without Corporations
A Family Doctor Prescription Fixing Primary Care
Judge rules against private care for patients as four-year B.C. trial challenging universal health system end
Judge’s decision expected in constitutional challenge of B.C.’s Medicare Protection Act
US doctor in Canada: Medicare for All would have made America’s COVID response much better
Surgical backlog must not be fixed at the expense of the healthcare system
COVID-19 Has Exposed the Perils of ‘Financialized’ Seniors’ Care
Careful, Canada: What Ireland has learned about two-tier health care
Thirteen things you need to know about the people trying to end Canadian health care as we know it.
Private health-care is all about doctor profits, federal lawyer tells B.C. court
The secret moves to increase private health care
China Caring for our Seniors
Charter challenge issue strike at the heart of the priniciples of medicare
Advocates demand end to extra billing, upset over 15.9 million federal claw back
July 10, 2019 Cambie Case Update – BCHC
A Welcome Second Chance for BC Medicare Protection
URGENT PRIMARY CARE CENTRES (UPCCs)
Why are we letting corporate medicine take hold in Vancouver’s new urgent care centres?
Why are we letting corporate medicine take hold in Vancouver’s new urgent care centres?
Opinion: Community health centres needed to improve primary care in B.C.
Opinion: Community health centres needed to improve primary care in B.C.
New, privatized health clinic will weaken public system: analyst
New, privatized health clinic will weaken public system: analyst
Patients searching for family doctor at new Langford Urgent Primary Care Centre leave disappointed
Patients searching for family doctor at new Langford Urgent Primary Care Centre leave disappointed
Quebec’s winter clinics far from the panacea promised by health minister.
Quebec’s winter clinics far from the panacea promised by health minister.
What is an Urgent and Primary Care Centre? Ministry of Health
What is an Urgent and Primary Care Centre? Ministry of Health
TRANSPORTATION
BC-wide transit and business incentives could fill rural transport gaps
PHARMACARE
How do Social Determinants of Health Affect Patient Wellness
VIRTUAL CARE
Where Telemedicine Falls Short
Profits Before Patients? The Corporate Push into BC’s Primary Care System
Some family doctors in B.C. now accepting new patients
LONG TERM CARE
DRUGS/ADDICTION
RURAL/REMOTE
FIRST NATIONS, ABORIGINAL, MÉTIS
DISCRIMINATION in HEALTHCARE
PRIMARY HEALTHCARE
A Family Doctor’s Prescription for Fixing Primary Care
Study: Primary Care Doctors Increase Life Expectancy, But Does Anyone Care?
Life expectancy grows with supply of primary care doctors
BC Health Coalition Applauds the new Team Based Primary Health Care Strategy
ALZHEIMERS/DEMENTIA
IMPROVEMENTS/SOLUTIONS
INTERVIEWS
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
Letter to the Editor – TIMES COLONIST
NURSE PRACTITIONERS
PHYSICIAN SHORTAGE
The Vancouver Island doctor shortage, explained
Patients searching for family doctor at new Langford urgent care centre disappointed
Healthcare workers in Alberta are looking outside their province for jobs.
Let’s declare a family-practice emergency
Letter to the Editor – TIMES COLONIST
SENIORS
WAIT TIMES
The Fix – New Program for Ontario Nursing Home
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Roadmap to a CHC in BC – BCACHC
Rural Health Councils – Policy Brief
Canadian Doctors for Medicare
Family Councils
Patient Medical Homes
First Nations/Aboriginal/Métis
Statement on Cultural Safety and Humility – FNHA
The British Columbia Patient-Centred Care Framework
Youth Mental Health
Rural Site Visit Project
BC Primary Health Care Research Network
A Pathway to Hope: A roadmap for making mental health and addictions care better for people in British Columbia
Rural Coordination Centre of BC
BC Emergency Health Services
Home Support – Office of the Seniors Advocate BC
Healthcare Travelling Roadshow
Action for Reform of Residential Care (ARRCBC) Association
Hospice Care
Canadian Virtual Hospice
The Rural Road Map
Drugsearch
VIRTUAL CARE
What Matters To You?
Virtual Care Guide for Patients
Visual Analytics Support for HEiDi
Are you the Victim of a Prescribing Cascade?
Choosing Wisely – Policy Ideas for Limiting Low Value Care in Canada
UNBC Health Research Institute
Free online presentation on medication safety for older adults and their caregivers
Healthy Aging CORE
A Billion Reasons to Care – Office of the Seniors Ombudsman
General Practice Services Committee (GPSC)
Nav-CARE – Navigating life and aging with chronic illness
How to Establish Intergenerational Groups in Your Community
BC Healthy Communities
CPC Participation in Health Care Planning
Caring for Older Adults
Rural Health Services Research Network
BC Academic Health Science Network
Michael Smith Foundation
Seniors helping seniors
The Primary Care Network Indigenous Engagement and Cultural Safety Guidebook
SOS Primary Care Network Issues Paper
SOS Primary Care Network Report
Aging Out: moving toward queer and trans competent care for seniors.
Policy Brief – RER
BC Patient Safety & Quality Council
BC Association of Community Health Centres
What Are Community Health Centres?
BC Ministry of Health
The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
BC Health Coalition
BC Patient Advisory Committee (Patient Voices Network)
Patients Travelling From Urban Geographies To Rural Hospitals For Procedural Care: A Realist Consideration
Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (Australia)
BC Primary Health Care Research Network
Delivery models of rural surgical services in BC (1996-2005)
Entrepreneurial Activities of Rural Coalitions in Advancing Access to Healthcare 2017
Health Sciences Association
Physician retention and recruitment outside urban BC (Thommasen, 2000)
Plan H (BC Healthy Communities Society)
Rural Coordination Centre of BC
Citizen Patient Community Participation in Health Care Planning 2019
Community-Level Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Health Care Providers to Rural and Remote Areas
Local Evidence for Health Planning through a Rural Lens
UBC Rural Evidence Review aims to identify highest-priority health needs in rural BC communities
Select Standing Committee on Health – Looking Forward – 2017 Report
BC Residential Care Facilities Quick Facts Directory
Seniors Advocate – Residential Care Facilities – Directory 2018
Seniors Advocate – Quick Facts Report 2018
Seniors Advocate – Residential Care Survey
The BC Rural Centre
Workforce retention in rural and remote Australia
Putting Our Minds Together: Research and Knowledge Management Strategy
Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (Australia)
Rural Evidence Review Project/Centre for Rural Health Research – Survey
Share Your Story
Colleges
Petitions
National Pharmacare
Take Action for Pharmacare
Public Health Care Solutions to Surgical Wait Times
Seniors and Long Term Care
Forward Together – A Canadian Plan
Action for Reform in Residential Care
Make Seniors Care part of our Public Healthcare System
Fix Long Term Care – CUPE
Support Our Elderly in LTC and Seniors’ Care Homes
Seniors Deserve Better – BC-GEU
Transportation
Let’s Ride! Make Public Transit BC Wide
Remove Financial Barriers for Rural British Columbians Seeking Healthcare Services
Reports/Research
COVID
Pandemic Preparedness – Auditor General of Canada
World Happiness Report 2021 – The Effects of COVID-19
Community Health Centres
Identifying the Features and Impacts of Community Health Centres – McMaster University
The importance of community health centres in BC’s primary care reforms: What the research tells us
Community Health Centres
The Importance of Community Health Centres
Privatization in Health Care
Privatization the pre-existing condition killing seniors in long-term care
Contracting-Out Care in Nursing Homes
Under-regulated, under-researched and largely privatized: Assisted living seniors’ care in BC
Privatization and Declining Access to BC Seniors’ Care
Continuing to defend public health care – Cambie case
Citizen-Patient-Community Participation in Health Care Planning….
Physician Assistants (PAs)
A systematic review: The role and impact of the physician assistant in the emergency department
The contributions of physician assistants in primary care systems
Long Term Care
Family Councils in Long Term Care
A Higher Standard in LTC Homes
Care Outcomes in Long Term Care Facilities in BC
The Place of Assisted Living in BC’s Seniors Care System
Restoring Trust: COVID-19 and The Future of Long-Term Care
From Residential Care to Hospital: An Emerging Pattern Aug 2018
Assisted Living in BC – Trends February 2020
Residential Care Facilities BC Quick Facts 2018
Home Support – Seniors Advocate
Isobel MacKenzie – Monitoring Seniors Services reports
Mental Health
Access to Adult Tertiary Mental Health and Substance Use Services – Auditor General Report
Youth Mental Health Report RCCbc
Hospice Care
Hospice Care in British Columbia: A Current State Assessment
Pharmacare
National Pharmacare
Physician Shortage in Canada
A Review of Contributing Factors
Transportation
Out-of-Pocket Costs for Rural Residents When Traveling for Healthcare
Accelerating Rural Transportation Solutions – Ontario
Seniors Transportation Report – Seniors Advocate McKenzie
UBC Rural Evidence Report
Rural/Remote
Highest Priority Health Needs in Rural Communities
Out-of-Pocket Costs for Rural Residents When Traveling for Health Care
Rural Road Map – Society of Rural Physicians
Letter to the Editor – TIMES COLONIST
Priorities for BCRHN
BC Rural and First Nations Health and Wellness Summit Summary Report
Community Factors and Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Health Care Providers to Rural and Remote Areas
Highest Priority Health Needs in Rural BC Communities 2019
Review of Family Medicine in Rural/Remote Canada
Physician Retention and Recruitment Outside Urban British Columbia 2000
Workforce Retention in Rural and Remote Australia 2002
Rural Health Services Research Network May 2018 Conference
BCRHN AGM 2020
In Hospitals, housekeepers are truly the ‘keepers of the house’.
Final Report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare
Provincial Health Care Partners’ Planning Retreat – Summary Report
Report on the Policy Discussion between BCRHN and MoH 2018
Ministry of Health – Putting Our Minds Together – Dec 2017
Report on the Health Sciences Association Conference April 2018
BCRHN Report to Ministry of Health on CHC Policy Development
CPC Participation in Health Care Planning
“What Matters to You?” BCPSQC Evaluation Report 2018/19
SOS Division – PCN Issues Paper September 2019
SOS Division – PCN Report September 2019
Provincial Health Care Partners’ Planning Retreat – Summary Report April 2019
Policy Discussion between BCRHN and MoH June 2018
Putting Out Fires – Use of Patient Complaints to Drive Improvements 2018
The ‘Whole-of-Person Retention Improvement Framework’
Blogs, Bulletins & Presentations
World Happiness Report 2021 – The Effects of COVID-19
How can we define rural?
Complicated gratitude: a letter to my mother’s physician
The Social Bubble Blog
A Word about First-Person Language
Four Things the Media got Wrong about Mental Illness
A Bridge to Action
BCRHN Presentation to Select Standing Committee on Finance – 2020
Conferences/Workshops/Webinars
Videos/Podcasts
Success Stories/Innovations
Nuu-chah-nulth healing practices introduced to health care staff in Tofino
Rising to the Challenge: How BC’s Community-Based Seniors’ Service Agencies Stepped Up During COVID-19
Volunteer-run medical flight service receives $500K to buy new plane
UBC receives $750K
Hospital at Home program – Victoria
Youth Poverty Solutions
Travelling Roadshow
Hip and knee surgeries
Specialists for Princeton Project
Rural Innovations and Site Visits Website – RCCbc
Drug Delivery by Drone
Life after COVID
Will our world ever be the same?
What will life be like after the coronavirus pandemic ends?
When Will COVID-19 Be Over
How Cities, Travel, and Families Will Change
Surveys and/or Volunteers needed for Research
BCRHN Letters
Template Letter to Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Rob Fleming
Letter to Minister of Health Adrian Dix regarding control and protection of Personal Health Records
Letter to Minister of Health Adrian Dix regarding Long Term Care in B.C.
Letter to Black Press re: National Pharmacare
Letter to the Honourable Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance re: Implementation of Universal, Public Pharmacare
Introductory Letter to the Honourable Adrian Dix, M.L.A. Minister of Health
Powell River Voices – Letter to the Vancouver Coastal Health Authorities
BCRHN Position Papers
Privatization in Health Care
Rural Health Councils
Community Health Centres
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Delivery Models of Rural Surgical Services in BC
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