Team-based care is the vision for the future of primary care in British Columbia.
Team-based models of primary healthcare are being developed and implemented across BC. Within these provincial efforts to establish and enhance team-based care (TBC), there is a critical need to support this transformation in BC with education, research, evaluation, and knowledge translation. While the provincial focus has become team-based care, there has been recognition that health professionals need to be supported to shift from (a) their siloed ways of delivering health services to (b) the optimal design for and functioning of highly effective healthcare teams—delivering seamless care that sustainably, equitably, and cost-effectively meets the needs of patients and communities. How do we get from (a) to (b)?
Taking an appreciative, action-oriented approach, the TBC @ UBC Network builds on previous work to occupy a bridging role in this TBC inquiry > evidence > action space. The network engages health professionals, health leaders, academics, policymakers, funding agencies, patients, and communities throughout BC. It enables these partners to discuss and learn from each other about the on-the-ground needs, opportunities, and challenges regarding TBC design, research/evidence, pedagogy, policy, and integration. The network aims to create a generative space that brings people, needs, and ideas into relationship—a process which begins by asking questions.
Join the Network
Supported by UBC Health, the TBC @ UBC Network aims to create meaningful partnerships among academia, government, health authorities, health professionals, and patients/community to support the integration of evidence into practice and facilitate the successful implementation of innovative models of primary healthcare and health education. The network will provide opportunities for engagement among people who are:
- Working ‘on the ground’ to affect health systems transformation and implement team-based models of care;
- Developing and implementing the educational supports needed to ensure the success of such initiatives;
- Engaged in research related to TBC and its influence on the broader social determinants of health, healthy communities, and community engagement
The network is co-facilitated by:
- Christie Newton, Associate Professor and Associate Head, Education and Engagement, Department of Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
- Lee Yeates, Clinical Associate Professor, Midwifery Program, Department of Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine, UBC and Co-Lead, Rural Obstetrics Network, Rural Coordination Centre of BC