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The joint meeting of the Community-Based Primary Health Care (CBPHC) 12-Teams and the SPOR PIHCI network will be held December 6-7, 2018 in Montreal, Quebec. The 12 CBPHC 12-Teams were funded by CIHR in 2012 to conduct programmatic cross-jurisdictional innovative research. As the funding is now coming to an end, the 12-Teams are gathering for…

The BC SUPPORT unit is hosting a webinar on January 14, 2019 at noon on the PREFeR project: Patients need to be part of the very early stages of research when ideas are identified and prioritized, but this doesn’t often happen. The PREFeR project team includes members of the BC-Primary Care Research Network Patient Advisory…

BC-PHCRN held a strategic planning meeting on September 7, 2018. BC-PHCRN began operations in June 2015, and its initial grant period is five years. Summer 2018 marks halfway through the grant period (funding expires May 2020), so it was prudent for the BC-PHCRN to take its mid-term pulse and revise its strategic plan and operational…

The BC-PHCRN Patient Advisory is made up of approximately 10 patient partners from across the province who assist with the operations, development and leadership of the BC-PHCRN. The Patient Advisory has also been instrumental in the PRioritiEs for Research (PREFeR) project, which isolated patient-identified priorities for future primary care research in BC and compared the…

Are you a BC patient or caregiver who has used palliative care services and reached out for help in a medical emergency? If so, we would like to hear from you!

UBC and the BC-PHCRN are currently hosting two international scholars studying primary health care reform. Janise Braga Barros Ferreira is a Professor in the Department of Social Medicine of the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (FMRP-USP). Before entering academia, she worked as a public health physician for twelve years, primarily in…

Dr. Sabrina Wong, BC-PHCRN Research Lead, will present at the UBC School of Nursing Rounds on April 24, 2018, from 8-9am. Details and online access options are available here.

Catherine Hudon, Université de Sherbrooke Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12–1pm 219 (within 201), 2206 East Mall School of Population and Public Health University of British Columbia Dr. Catherine Hudon will present pieces of her research program describing complex patients and how we can improve care integration, especially through case management programs. Dr. Hudon is a…

It is finally spring and the BC-PHCRN has been busy in the months since our last update. Highlights from this period include facilitating the submission of a number of Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Primary Integrated Health Care Innovations Network (PIHCIN) grant applications; hosting an exhibitor table at the…

The PREFeR (PRioritiEs For Research) Project invites all patients and primary care providers in BC to rate the top 10 topics identified by the BC-PHCRN Patient Advisory. The more patients and providers who express their views, the better understanding we will have of the priorities for different people in different parts of BC. If you…