Welcome

Welcome to the Island Health Department of Primary Care. This department is the home of Family Physicians who practice important components of “Full Scope” Family Practice in our many Island Health Hospital Act sites and Long Term Care Act sites and some Community Primary Care clinics. Please explore our website and if you have any questions about the Department please contact me atWilliam.Cunningham@islandhealth.ca.

Also if you have suggestions for improvement of our website please reach out to me atWilliam.cunningham@islandhealth.ca. Please look at the four attached documents that let you look at the work we do and where and how.

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Primary Care Update
Updated: February 23, 2022

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Clinical Resources

BC Guidelinesare clinical practice guidelines and protocols that provide recommendations to B.C. practitioners on delivering high quality, appropriate care to patients with specific clinical conditions or diseases.

Island Health Clinical Order Setsare available on the intranet.

Choosing Wisely Canadais the national voice for reducing unnecessary tests and treatments in health care.

The Therapeutics Initiativewas established in 1994 by the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in cooperation with the Department of Family Practice at The University of British Columbia with its mission to provide physicians and pharmacists with up-to-date, evidence-based, practical information on prescription drug therapy.

UpToDateis a clinical decision support resource.

Spectrumis a mobile app that is customized to deliver local antimicrobial stewardship guidelines, resistance data and dosing information.

Do Bugs Need Drugs?is a community program for wise use of antibiotics.

The BC Emergency Medicine Networkconnects BC emergency practitioners with each other and with current, practical resources via four core programs: Clinical Resources (includes procedural videos), Innovation, Continuing Professional Development, and Real-Time Support – all integrated under one roof.