AGM Recap: Your Priorities, Our Advocacy

Thank you to all who joined us at this year’s AGM and contributed to our advocacy input circles. Your honesty, experiences, and ideas were invaluable.

Special thanks for those who stayed for our advocacy input circles. Here’s a summary of the perspectives shared.

Team-Based Care

Participating members shared that team-based care has enormous potential when it’s built around family physician leadership and community needs. Where teams are well integrated, patient care improves and workload becomes more manageable. But access to allied health supports is inconsistent, models are overly bureaucratic, and current billing rules can prevent meaningful collaboration.

Administrative Burden

Members also told us that administrative burden remains a major threat to sustainability. Many forms are duplicative or inappropriate, EMR systems don’t talk to each other, and tasks better suited to other professionals continue to fall on family physicians. You want meaningful form redesign, better delegation, digital modernization, and support to reduce paperwork that takes time away from patients.

Rural Incentives & Supports

Rural and remote physicians highlighted the reality of wearing multiple hats - from clinic to ER to maternity care - often with limited team support. Incentives alone don’t fix systemic gaps. Members emphasized the need for stable programs like Real Time Virtual Support (RTVS), enhanced family supports, additional training exposure to rural practice, and a more nuanced definition of what rural means across BC.

Thank you again for taking the time to share what matters most in your practice. These insights will directly shape our advocacy and collaborative work in the months ahead.

You can read the full summary of what we heard here.

Missed the AGM but want to contribute? We're still listening. Email us at office@bccfp.bc.ca with your experiences on the topics above.