Partners in prevention

The provincial government must work together with the BCMA via the General Practice Services Committee, the Specialist Services Committee, the Shared Care & Scope of Practice Committee, and the proposed Clinical Prevention System Working Group to develop and adopt the relationships, incentives, supports, and quality measures necessary to ensure the success of the lifetime prevention plan. [...] Implementing a Lifetime Prevention Plan – How Best to Deliver CP Services Exhibit 5: Guidelines for the Choice of Delivery Mechanism for CP Services (Adapted from the CPPRC) Systematic provision of CP Provide all the services in the LPP in a systematic way within the province, services recognizing the need to tailor the intervention to specific circumstances. [...] The success of the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC), combined with the primary-care focus of the LPP, suggests that the provincial government should envision a broad partnership with the medical profession that includes collaboration via the GPSC, the Specialist Services Committee (SSC), and the Shared Care & Scope of Practice Committee (SCSPC). [...] However, the GP – as the best-trained generalist with ultimate responsibility for patient care, the steward of the medical record (paper or electronic), and the most-accessed primary care provider in the province – serves as the logical choice to be the primary clinician responsible for coordinating the lifetime prevention plan. [...] The Ministry of Health Services should recognize the GP as the primary clinician responsible for the delivery of clinical prevention services offered under the lifetime prevention plan where appropriate.