Our Impact

• The Division creates a concept plan for a Shared Care Pregnancy Centre that aims to enhance the efficiency and consistency of perinatal care by employing a centralized, interprofessional approach to all phases of perinatal care in Prince George. The Division presents the concept plan to Northern Health which will assess the project’s feasibility and initiate discussions for additional funding.
• The Primary Care Network undergoes a refresh and includes more PCN representation around the table.

• To address the influx of unattached and out-of-town patients being admitted to hospital the Division created the Doctor of the Week program. Later changed to a blended Doctor of the Day, the program allows more flexibility but still addresses attachment of patients. 
• Created the Prince George Improving Attachment Data Quality subcommittee to and attaches 152 patients from the Health Connect Registry to Primary Care Providers.

2018-2019

• The Division completes its Primary Care Network (PCN) service plan and signs an agreement to become the second (PCN) community in the province! While the name is new and the initiative is new for the Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC, the concept is not new Prince George family physicians who have always been a networked medical community, covering each other and taking care of all of the longitudinal primary care needs of the patients of Prince George.

2016-2019

• The Division adds 20 new full-service family physician members between 2016 and 2019, growing to 92 members.

   

2015

• In partnership with Northern Health, the Division implements team‐based care implementation with 33 doctors working in interprofessional teams. Together the organizations communicate to staff and citizens about the changes to primary care delivery.
  
• The Division focuses on physician resiliency and team building, along with deepening engagement with division members. Care coordination is a highlight with the development and implementation of an E-care plan and compressive referral form.

2014

• Northern Health’s Board Chair, CEO, VPs and other exec review and recommit to the partnership with the Division.  
• 82k patients attached to primary care from PG and local areas are accounted for in AMCARE. 
• The Division hosts Primary Health Care forums with communities on Aboriginal Health, Mental Health and Addictions, Trauma Informed Practice, and End of Life.

2013

• The Division develops a recruitment strategic plan and creates a multi‐sectoral recruitment committee  that includes the Division, Northern Health, Northern Medical Program, UBC Residency program, municipal government, and community. 
• Prince George convenes a Joint Leadership Committee for Health. 
• The Blue Pine Primary Health Care Clinic, a partnership between the PG Division and Northern Health, opens its doors in July. 

2012

• The Division develops a one-pager to illustrate its comprehensive community plan. Prince George is the prototype for a Residential Complex Care program and a culture of quality improvement is developing. The board and staff build on early work of the comprehensive community plan and the matrix as part of a strategic planning exercise, resulting in the first version of the 2012 – 2015 Strategic Directions document.

2011

• The Division begins collecting aggregate data from practices using AMCARE.
• By September 2013, the data represents 126,000 patients from across the North.
• 100% uptake among PG full service family doctors.

• Northern Health’s 2010 strategic plan centers primary care.
• The GPSC explores prototyping the Attachment Initiative.
• A GP for Me is announced and Prince George is announced as one of three prototype communities.

• Physicians, Northern Health, and GPSC are incorporated as the Prince George Division of Family Practice Society.
• The Division and Northern Health meet regularly to work out the partnership required to tackle some big issues; the emergent situation with inpatient coverage and the problem of access to primary care.
• The PG Division, in partnership with NH, signs its first service agreement with the MoH for an Inpatient Primary Care Physician Program (this replaced our failing Doctor of the Day Program.
• The Hollander Report on primary care is released and validates much of what we already knew in our community.

• The Unattached Patients Committee identifies 15,000+ unattached patients. One third of these patients require more complex care than is available.
• The Committee opens a temporary clinic to serve these patients.
• The Committee lobbies the Ministry of Health and the GPSC to support the development of a multi‐disciplinary clinic to serve unattached patients.

• Care North is created to continue the coordination of Primary Health Care Transition Fund initiatives and new provincial initiatives including Integrated Health Networks.
• Care North strikes an Unattached Patients Committee to study the issue of unattached patients in Prince George.