BC Primary Health Care Research Network

News and Events

  • Effective Participation in New Models of Care: Primary Care Networks and Patient Medical Homes

    BC-PHCRN is pleased to be hosting a post-conference workshop at the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research annual health policy conference. Friday, March 8, 2019 1:00 to 4:30 pm $100 for conference attendees ($75 for students), or $125 as a stand-alone workshop. Lunch included for all options. Team-based care is a vision for Read more

  • Welcome Gillian Bartlett, ED of the SPOR PIHCI Network Coordinating Office

    We are delighted to announce that Gillian Bartlett will be the new Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovation Network Coordinating Office Executive Director. Dr. Bartlett is a full professor at McGill University in Montreal as well as the Research and Graduate Programs Director and the Associate Chair in the Department of Family Medicine. She received Read more

  • CBPHC 12 Teams and PIHCIN Joint Meeting

    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 Read more

  • Webinar Jan 14: The PREFeR (PRioritiEs For Research) project: Identifying patient priorities for primary care research in British Columbia

    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 Read more

  • Report from September 2018 BC-PHCRN Strategic Planning Session

    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 Read more

  • Seeking members for the BC-PHCRN Patient Advisory

    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 Read more