Episode 16: The Next 6 Months: Challenges, Change, and Big Opportunities for Physios
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Episode 16: The Next 6 Months: Challenges, Change, and Big Opportunities for Physios
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Host: Patrick Dessaulles, Professional Development Lead, PABC Guest: Andrea Burton, CEO, PABC
In this episode of New Directions, Patrick sits down with PABC CEO Andrea Burton to look at what’s worrying—and what’s exciting in the physiotherapy landscape in BC over the next six months.
Key topics:- Fees & funding pressures
- Wide variation in clinic fees and the impact on insurer expectations.
- Stagnant rates since before COVID and what that means for clinic sustainability.
- The long-frozen MSP rate of $23/visit and how it affects patient access.
- Regulation & contracts
- Ongoing uncertainty with the Health Professions and Occupations Act (HPOA).
- Concerns about public practice contracts under HSA and how small physio’s voting power is.
- WorkSafeBC service agreement renegotiation and lessons learned from the ICBC contract fight.
- Scope, imaging & system change
- PABC’s push to add diagnostic imaging to physio scope and why it’s a game changer for access and wait times.
- Upcoming position statement and webinar for members.
- Strengthening the profession & PABC’s role
- Building more collegiality across public/private and between clinics.
- PABC as the only organized physiotherapy voice under a multi-profession college.
- How stories, member engagement, and working groups fuel real advocacy wins.
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