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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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    • COVID-19
      • When Will COVID-19 Be Over
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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
  • Contact us

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  • News Articles
    • 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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    • COVID-19
      • When Will COVID-19 Be Over
    • News Releases
    • 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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