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Stakeholders Consultation Meeting on Identifying and Supporting for PLWD Among the Homeless Population in BC

Wallaa Daramlly — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:37:33 +0000

Homeless individuals are among the most marginalized and neglected populations, and the intersection of dementia and homelessness presents unique challenges for care provision and policy intervention. This meeting will provide an opportunity to gather key stakeholders to examine these challenges, explore the existing gaps in knowledge and services, and collaboratively develop approaches to address these challenges effectively. By identifying the needs, barriers, and potential solutions to support homeless PLWD, we aim to generate insights that will inform and strengthen the implementation of a pilot program in British Columbia.

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Pan-Canadian Cancer Biomarker Inventory

Wallaa Daramlly — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:38:34 +0000

This project aims to develop a comprehensive, up-to-date inventory of publicly funded cancer biomarkers across Canadian jurisdictions. Building on a preliminary database developed by CDA-AMC, publicly available information will first be compiled and organized. Consultations will then be conducted with jurisdictional contacts to complete and validate the database, ensuring it contains accurate information on funded biomarkers and their key characteristics for the most common cancer types. Through these consultations, the project will also assess the feasibility of regularly updating, maintaining, and publishing this resource as a living inventory in the future.

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Evaluation of the Facility Engagement Initiative

Wallaa Daramlly — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:09:36 +0000

The Facility Engagement (FE) Initiative is a provincial initiative that has supported meaningful consultation and collaboration among facility-based medical staff and health authorities in British Columbia since 2014. It is focused on improving engagement within and across Medical Staff Associations (MSAs), strengthening engagement between MSAs and Health Authorities (HAs), and enhancing the MSA collective voice in health system planning and decision-making – ultimately to support high quality health care, improved patient outcomes, lowered costs, and effective change in health care overall. The Specialist Services Committee, a joint collaborative committee of Doctors of BC and the Government of BC, has engaged SRDC to conduct an evaluation examining the extent of FE’s achievement of its expected outcomes and its impact aligned with the Quintuple Aim (improved provider experience, improved patient experience, lower cost, improved equity, and improved health outcomes). SRDC is taking a mixed methods approach, including document review, surveys, review of administrative and financial program data, case studies, and a reflection session. Results will help inform future planning and decision-making for the FE Initiative.

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Perioperative Clinical Action Network Evaluation

Wallaa Daramlly — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:58:27 +0000

The Perioperative Clinical Action Network (PCAN) initiative brings together multidisciplinary surgical teams of all specialities and hospitals as well as a diverse range of stakeholders and multidisciplinary network members to support local and regional surgical solutions and quality improvement efforts in British Columbia. PCAN has four Strategic Focus Areas: equitable access, prehabilitation and enhanced recovery after surgery, cancer care, and network supports.

The Specialist Services Committee, a joint collaborative committee of Doctors of BC and the Government of BC, has engaged SRDC to conduct an outcomes evaluation of PCAN. SRDC is taking a mixed methods approach to determine if PCAN is having measurable impacts on improving surgical care, including but not limited to the Quintuple Aim (i.e., improved provider experience, improved patient experience, lower cost, improved health equity, and improved population health) with an added lens of access to specialist care. Impact is also being examined through the lens of the objectives identified when PCAN first launched in 2023, which include fostering the identification, sharing, and support of surgical priorities; facilitating the spread of quality improvement and innovation ideas to elevate surgical care across the province; and leveraging network data to identify and guide quality improvement opportunities on a provincial scale.

Overall, the evaluation aims to examine how effectively PCAN has contributed to achieving these goals and how its efforts have translated into measurable improvements in access to specialist care, surgical care delivery, patient outcomes, and system-level efficiencies in BC.

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Provincial Training Initiative: Phase 2 Evaluation

Wallaa Daramlly — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:52:38 +0000

The Provincial Training Initiative (PTI) is a multi-year project collaboration between Children’s Mental Health Ontario and the Lead Agency Consortium that will increase the number of child and youth mental health clinicians trained to deliver evidence-based treatment designed for children and youth with complex and significant mental health needs. The mandate of PTI is to build and implement a sustainable and supported provincial training model to improve the availability, consistency, and delivery of evidence-based clinical treatment modalities across the province. The project is rooted in a vision that aims to ensure children and youth with complex and significant mental health needs will have consistent access to appropriate high-quality evidence based intensive treatment services within their communities across the province. SRDC has been engaged to conduct the Phase 2 Evaluation of PTI, including process, outcomes, and economic evaluations. Results will help inform future enhancements or expansions of PTI as well as processes and structures for other provincial initiatives.

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Integration of Mental Health and Substance Use Health Services in Primary Care Settings

Wallaa Daramlly — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:02:28 +0000

Primary care providers are still the first point of contact for health services for the majority of Canadians, so improving the quality, accessibility, and types of mental health and substance use health services they offer is expected to improve patient outcomes. In the face of increasing demand for mental health and substance use health services, there is a need to support primary care providers in tailoring these services to the different communities they serve, and to increase capacity for multidisciplinary approaches; national standards can be part of the solution to address these needs. The Canadian Standards Association Group has engaged SRDC to undertake background research on best practices and models of care (e.g., stepped care; coordinated access), and how future standardization efforts can take into account equity for Black Canadians, First Nations, Inuit, Metis, and people of color, as well as the gaps, needs, and priorities of different jurisdictions in Canada. SRDC will also facilitate a series of workshops with relevant parties – including primary care providers and people with lived experience of mental health and substance use health services – to lead a consensus-based process on developing guidance on these issues. The resulting National Workshop Agreement report produced by the CSA Group will provide guidance to improve the integration of MHSUH services in primary care settings, in English and French.

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Estimating the Economic Benefit of the Early Years

Wallaa Daramlly — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:29:16 +0000

The Martin Family Initiative (MFI) Early Years began in Maskwacis, Alberta, in 2018 with the aim of co-developing and implementing Indigenous-led, community-based, and relationship-driven early childhood services supporting children. The Early Years bridges community expertise and leadership across the health, education, and social services domains to support Indigenous women, children, and families. With support provided to families prenatally through to preschool stages, the program recognizes that strong Indigenous families and communities are integral to fostering healthy child and brain development. The Martin Family Initiative has engaged SRDC to conduct an economic evaluation of the Early Years to gain insight into both the inherent and economic costs and benefits associated with co-developing and implementing a culturally-grounded, holistic, and Indigenous-centred early childhood intervention model. The economic evaluation will comprise the benefits and costs of the Early Years for individuals and families, community, and governments. This project involves collaboration with members of the community, Maskwacis Health services, and the Martin Family Initiative.

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Primary Care Physician Remuneration and Substance Use Care – Evidence Review

U7 Solutions — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 23:55:38 +0000

SRDC is supporting the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), and the Canadian Executive Council on Addictions (CECA), to explore how the current landscape in health systems across Canada could inform innovation in substance use care, particularly in the context of COVID-19 and the demonstrated potential for rapid health system change. Building on findings from the Family Physician Remuneration for Substance Use Disorders Care report released last year, the CCSA and CECA wish to identify primary care physician remuneration models and payment mechanisms/processes that could be recommended to improve access to, and quality of, substance use care.

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Calgary Foothills Primary Care Network: Annual Staff Survey

U7 Solutions — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 23:42:15 +0000

Calgary Foothills Primary Care Network (CFPCN) is a group of more than 450 family doctors who collaborate with teams of other health professionals to offer care to approximately 379,000 patients in north Calgary and Cochrane, Alberta. SRDC is administering the 2019 iteration of CFPCN’s annual online survey of more than 200 staff members, and analyzing the quantitative and qualitative data. The PCN will use the results for internal reporting and ultimately to better understand staff engagement, how organizational values are being upheld, and acceptance of change management across the organization.

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Formative Evaluation of the BC Support Unit

U7 Solutions — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 22:41:09 +0000

The BC SUPPORT (Support for People and Patient-Oriented Research and Trials) Unit is a multi-partner organization created to support, streamline, and increase patient-oriented research throughout BC. Patient-oriented research is defined as research that engages patients as partners and focuses on patient-identified priorities with the goals of improving patient experiences, health outcomes, and the health system. BC’s Unit is one of 11 established across the country as part of Canada’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research led by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. SRDC is undertaking a formative evaluation of the BC SUPPORT Unit activities to date to identify lessons learned during the initial development stage. Focus areas include: relationship development across the BC health research sector; engagement and involvement of stakeholder groups in Unit activities; awareness and understanding of patient-oriented research across the province; similarities and differences in Unit implementation across components (e.g., regional centres, methods clusters); and progress towards meeting Unit goals and objectives. SRDC’s evaluation gathers information from activities across the Unit including methods clusters, regional centres, demonstration projects, operational working groups, and funding partner activity reports.

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