Province of British Columbia
40th Parliament – 2015
Select Standing Committee on Health
INDEX

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PAD See Assisted dying
Pain management See Health care system; Hospice and palliative care
Palliative care See Hospice and palliative care
Palliative care benefits program See Funding under Hospice and palliative care
Paramedics

Community paramedicine (Patterson, T.) 15:0855, 15:0910 (Rice) 15:0910
Role in health care system (Cavers, B.) 15:1100 (Routley, B.) 15:1100
Role in health care system, expansion (Burton, A.) 16:0905
Paterson, Josh

Presentation to committee on behalf of B.C. Civil Liberties Association 17:1105-1150
Assisted dying
accessibility 17:1120-1130
civil liberties issues 17:1105-1150
consent issues 17:1115, 17:1130, 17:1145
federal and provincial government action 17:1110
health care facilities not participating 17:1135-1140
life insurance issues 17:1145
pharmacists not participating and referrals 17:1140
pharmacy role 17:1140-1145
physicians not participating and referrals 17:1120-1140
power of attorney role 17:1130
regulation 17:1110-1145
B.C. Civil Liberties Association, role and activities 17:1105
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, provisions 17:1105-1110
Canadian Medical Association, consultation on assisted dying 17:1140
Doctors of B.C., consultation on assisted dying 17:1140
Health care system, advance care directives and planning
continuation of feeding 17:1130
implementation 17:1120, 17:1130, 17:1145
Supreme Court of Canada
ruling on assisted dying 17:1105-1115
ruling on public health care services 17:1140
PATH Clinic, Halifax, N.S.

Health care and palliative services for frail elderly (Darcy) 18:0925-0930 (McGregor, M.) 18:0920-0925, 18:0940
PATH paradigm for diagnosis and staging See Dementia and frailty under Dementia
Patient navigators See Health care system
Patients See Health care system
Patterson, Ted

B.C. by region
rural B.C.
health care services 15:0845-0855
health care services and population health status 15:0830-0835
physician supply, recruitment and retention 15:0835-0915
socioeconomic status information 15:0835
Health care facilities and hospitals, inter-facility transfers 15:0850
Health care funding, model for interdisciplinary teams 15:0910
Health care system
government policy papers 15:0845-0855, 15:0910
health professionals, recruitment in rural areas 15:0835, 15:0855
joint committee on rural issues 15:0900
primary health care
community care 15:0850
interdisciplinary teams 15:0850, 15:0905-0915
services for First Nations people 15:0835
system, government priorities 15:0840-0910
telehealth 15:0915
Health Ministry
briefing to committee 15:0830-0915
priorities and planning 15:0840-0900
Health status and outcomes 15:0835
Medical Services Commission, payment schedule changes 15:0915
Nurses, nurse practitioners 15:0910
Paramedics, community paramedicine 15:0855, 15:0910
Physicians
collective agreement 15:0840
payment models, changes 15:0855
physician assistants 15:0915
specialists, accessibility 15:0850
supply and training
credentialling of foreign-trained physicians and practice-ready assessments 15:0900
family physician training 15:0855
international medical graduate residency program 15:0840, 15:0900, 15:0910
retiring physicians 15:0905
South Africa, physicians, practice in B.C. 15:0900, 15:0910
Peacock, Joy

Presentation to committee on behalf of Association of Registered Nurses of B.C. 16:0915-0930
Health care system, patient discharges, case management and transition to community care 16:0915-0920
Home care services, role of nurses 16:0920
Nurses
nurse practitioners, payment models 16:0925
supply and training 16:0925-0930
Ontario, home care services 16:0920
Scandinavia, health care system, community care for seniors 16:0915
Peer counselling See Mental health
Pharmacies

Role in assisted dying See Assisted dying
Pharmacists

Role in assisted dying See Assisted dying
Role in health care system (Cavers, B.) 15:1100 (Routley, B.) 15:1100
Physician-assisted dying See Assisted dying
Physicians

Barriers to interdisciplinary practice model (Cohen, M.) 18:1030
Collaboration with government on system issues See System under Health care system
Collective agreement (Cavers, B.) 15:1025 (Patterson, T.) 15:0840
Demographics and hours of work (Cohen, M.) 18:1030
Family physicians
accessibility (Dimmick, J.) 14:1015-1020
divisions of family practice (Cavers, B.) 15:1025-1030
A GP for Me program (Cavers, B.) 15:1030
training See Supply and training below
Generational divide (Cohen, M.) 18:1040-1045, 18:1100
Government relationship with physicians, committees (Cavers, B.) 15:1025
PAD See Assisted dying
Payment models
capitation (Cohen, M.) 18:1035, 18:1045
changes (Cavers, B.) 15:1030, 15:1045 (Cohen, M.) 18:1035-1040 (Patterson, T.) 15:0855
fee-for-service payment system (Cohen, M.) 18:1030
home visits (Darcy) 16:1240 (Lee) 16:0925 (Slater, J.) 16:1240-1245 (Sloan, J.) 16:1240
incentive fee program for palliative care (Hawley, P.) 16:1050, 16:1100 (Stilwell, Moira) 16:1050
model for interdisciplinary teams See Health care funding
salary (Cohen, M.) 18:1040
shadow billing issue (Cohen, M.) 18:1055 (Stilwell, Moira) 18:1050
specialists (Stilwell, Moira) 14:1040
Physician assistants (Darcy) 14:1045 (Dimmick, J.) 14:1040 (Patterson, T.) 15:0915 (Plecas) 14:1040, 15:0910
Physician-assisted dying See Assisted dying
Professional practice, low- and high-responsibility practices (Cohen, M.) 18:1030, 18:1050, 18:1100 (Plecas) 18:1055-1100 (Stilwell, Moira) 18:1050-1055
Recruitment See Supply and training below
Specialists, accessibility (Dimmick, J.) 14:1010-1015, 14:1035 (Lee) 14:1025 (Patterson, T.) 15:0850
Specialists, billing model See Payment models above
Supply and training
credentialling of foreign-trained physicians (Barnett) 14:1030 (Dimmick, J.) 14:1035-1040 (Stilwell, Moira) 14:1025
credentialling of foreign-trained physicians and practice-ready assessments (Patterson, T.) 15:0900
distribution of physicians (Stilwell, Moira) 15:1045-1050
family physician supports and training (Cavers, B.) 15:1025
family physician training (Patterson, T.) 15:0855
international medical graduate residency program (Barnett) 15:0910 (Patterson, T.) 15:0840, 15:0900, 15:0910
practice changes and re-entry issues (Cavers, B.) 15:1050 (Stilwell, Moira) 15:1045-1050
recruitment (Davies, T.) 14:1040
retiring physicians (Larson) 15:0900-0905 (Patterson, T.) 15:0905
return-of-service concept (Stilwell, Moira) 14:1025
supply in rural areas See Rural B.C. under British Columbia by region
tracking of graduates (Cavers, B.) 15:1045-1050 (Stilwell, Moira) 15:1045
training for medical students in rural communities (Barnett) 14:1030 (Cavers, B.) 15:1035 (Dimmick, J.) 14:1015-1020 (Rice) 14:1025
training in palliative care (Darcy) 16:1120 (Routley, B.) 16:1055-1100
training in palliative care and national centre proposal (Hawley, P.) 16:1100 (Lee) 16:1100
training in palliative care and spaces (Hawley, P.) 16:1045-1100, 16:1105-1110, 16:1120-1125 (Stilwell, Moira) 16:1055
Work with other health professionals, changes See also Primary care, interdisciplinary teams under Health care system
(Cavers, B.) 15:1040 (Larson) 15:1040
PIECES program See Training for staff under Long-term and residential care
Plecas, Darryl (Abbotsford South)

Assisted dying
implementation timeline 14:0940
British Columbia by region
rural B.C.
physician supply, recruitment and retention 15:0915
Gawande, Atul
comments on end-of-life care in Being Mortal 12:1025
Health care system
information technology 15:1050
primary health care
interdisciplinary teams 18:1055-1100
system
collaboration between government and physicians 15:1050
telehealth 14:1025, 15:0910
Hospice and palliative care
end-of-life care 12:1025
communications and planning 18:0935
Physicians
physician assistants 14:1040, 15:0910
professional practice
low- and high-responsibility practices 18:1055-1100
Seniors
housing, issues 14:1140
income 14:1140
Practice-ready assessments See Supply and training, credentialling of foreign-trained physicians under Physicians
Primary health care See Health care system
Public health

Immunization (Hammell) 17:1135
Puget Sound Group Health

Primary health care services (Cohen, M.) 18:1050-1055

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