Overviews & Summaries

• Understanding Quality Improvement Practice Guide
• GPSC Practice Support Program: Team Roles, Pathways & Funding Summary
• Care Model Checklist: Changes to Improve Care

Physician Profile Analysis Report

The BC Ministry of Health report provides a simple means to get started with developing patient registers for chronic disease patients and helps physicians engage in planned, proactive care. It is free, secure, confidential and available by request to all practicing family physicians in BC. 

Request the report for an analysis of practice demographics to highlight your practice's chronic disease patients, billing patterns for chronic disease incentives and proxy measures for quality of care.

The current version of the Physician Profile Analysis Request Form (v2.0) includes practice profile information, plus registers for DM, CHF, CKD, COPD and HTN.

Note that patient registers are updated each fiscal year, once all incoming data for the year has been processed. This usually occurs sometime in July. Because of this, you may want to request a new report each year. To request a report:  

1. Submit a Physician Profile Analysis Request Form (v2.0)
2. Be sure to include your email address. Having an email account is MANDATORY as the report is sent as an encrypted CD via Canada Post and a 64 character password is sent via email.
3. Note that the Ministry will notify your Health Authority's Practice Support Program/Regional Support Team to let them know that you have requested a report (they do not receive any information that is in the report itself). You may choose to opt out of having your HA notified by ticking the box on the registration form.

Instructions for decrypting the CD are available below, as well as instructions for loading data to the CDM Toolkit and a copy of the cover letter that accompanies the report.

• Physician Profile Analysis cover letter
• Instructions for accessing your Physician Profile Report from the encrypted CD
• Sample email containing password to decrypt the Report CD
• Loading Patient Register Data to the Toolkit
• Report Sample

Billing Guides & Information  

• General Practice Billing Guide
• Full Service Family Practice Incentive Program
• GP Fee Update July 2008
• GPSC Fee Update July 2009

Templates, Tips & Tools

• Complex Care Fees Billing Template
• Complex Care Plan Template
• Community and Facility-Based Patient Conferencing Fees Template
• Frailty in Older Adults Care Plan Template

Risk Assessment Tools

• Coronary Heart Disease Scoring Sheet for Men & Women
• Seniors Assessment Tool

Useful Websites

• Society of General Practitioners
• BC Clinical Guidelines
• Physician Information Technology Office (PITO)
  • List of EMR vendors

Practice Support Program Introductory Workshops

In May and June 2007, a series of twenty Practice Support Program workshops was held in eighteen communities across BC. Presentation materials from these workshops are posted here.

• GPSC Initiatives and the PSP: The New Culture for Family Practice
• PSP Data Package
• Frequently Asked Questions
• EMRs, PITO and eHealth Update
• Practice Support Program Module Pathways
• Understanding Your Practice
• The GPSC Billing Tutorial
• Glossary of Acronyms

Participant Funding

Contact your Health Authority Practice Support Team for details on General Practitioner and Medical Office Assistant participant funding for modules.