The Specialist Services Committee (SSC) improves patient care by engaging physicians to collaborate, lead quality improvement and deliver quality services with SSC supports and incentives.
Enhanced Access Initiative
Improves patient access to consult and care by enabling specialist groups to implement a pooled referral model of service delivery.
Facility Engagement
Funds and supports facility-based Medical Staff Associations (MSAs) to increase engagement among members and with their health authority, to improve care delivery.
Improving Specialist Job Satisfaction
Works to address physician burnout and improve provider experience of care delivery.
Health System Redesign
Funds specialists and health authorities to collaborate on system change projects.
Quality and Innovation Projects
Enables individual and team projects by specialists across the province to address system and patient health challenges.
Physician Leadership Scholarship
Empowers physicians by providing them with leadership training of their choosing as approved by the SSC.
SSC Fees
Compensates specialists to provide coordinated and timely care to patients and to consult other clinicians on complex cases.
Specialists Team Care Collaborative
Improves patient experience through a multidisciplinary team approach to care in the specialists community setting.
Spreading Quality Improvement
Fosters collaborative relationships at the provincial, regional/organizational and local levels resulting in the spread of the quality improvement projects.
Surgical Patient Optimization Collaborative
Works to optimize patient health before major surgery for improved surgical outcomes.
Physician Quality Improvement
Physician Quality Improvement (PQI) works to enhance physician capacity in quality improvement by providing training and hands-on experience.
UBC Physician Leadership Program
Empowers physicians by providing them with accredited leadership training by the University of British Columbia.