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This discussion paper from the BC Nurse Practitioners Association describes a new primary health care model that encourages a focus on place-based, multidisciplinary teams, shared governance, and care that is developed with and wrapped around patients. Incorporated within this discussion paper is a funding strategy proposal that has the potential to immediately place the NP workforce…

Are you or someone you know interested in gaining interdisciplinary team experience, feedback on your own research and mentorship from a vast network of primary health care researchers and decision makers? Then TUTOR-PHC is for you! This call for applications for TUTOR-PHC is open to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, mid-career clinicians, and decision makers in…

In this Update Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Summit 2016 Taking the Pulse of Primary Care Reform Conference 2016 Quick Strike Grants Funded in BC A comparative analysis of centralized waiting lists for patients without a primary care provider implemented in six Canadian provinces Validation of administrative and primary care electronic medical record derived frailty…

DATE: Oct 31, 2016 – 12:00pm to 1:00pm LOCATION: 700-828 W. 10th Ave., VGH Research Pavilion PRESENTER: Stirling Bryan and Kim McGrail DETAILS: The BC SUPPORT Unit (the Unit) is a multi-partner organization created to support, streamline and increase patient-oriented research throughout BC. The Unit is one of several SUPPORT Units established across the country…

We are attending the SPOR Summit in Ottawa Oct. 25-27, hosted by CIHR. The Summit brings together SPOR stakeholders, including patients, federal/provincial/territorial ministries, partners, researchers and clinicians. Plenary sessions will be live streamed, or follow the #SPORSummit hashtag on Twitter. More details 

The UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) annual conference will be held on March 10, 2017, on the topic of primary health care reform. Visit the CHSPR website for more information and details on the call for poster abstracts.

The BC SUPPORT Unit is a multi-partner organization created to support, streamline and increase patient-oriented research throughout BC. Methods clusters are communities of methodology practice, expertise and support, each cluster focusing on a specific research methodology. The SUPPORT Unit is recruiting leads, each in a 0.2 FTE role, for the first four methods clusters that…

The BC Academic Health Science Network (BC AHSN), home to the BC SUPPORT Unit, has announced their board members and executive co-leads, and begun a process of stakeholder engagement designed to inform the development of the network. Learn more about: BC Academic Health Science Network BC SUPPORT Unit Subscribe to BC AHSN mailing list to…

Are you or someone you know interested in gaining interdisciplinary team experience, feedback on your own research and mentorship from a vast network of primary health care researchers and decision makers? Then TUTOR-PHC is for you! This call for applications for TUTOR-PHC is open to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, mid-career clinicians, and decision makers in…

Welcome to Minnie Downey, Executive Director of the BC SUPPORT Unit as of Sept 12. More