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Recommendation 38:
Ensure that post-use of force medical assessments are used solely to support the wellbeing of the patient and to document signs of ill-treatment. Any signs of ill-treatment must be reported to the Warden, BC Corrections Provincial Director, Provincial Health Services Authority Director of Correctional Health Services and the Investigation and Standards Office.
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Recommendation 40:
Ensure post-use of force medical assessments include an assessment of the prisoner’s mental state and any potential impact on the prisoner’s mental health. When indicated, monitor and treat prisoners for for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Recommendation 9:
Ensure adequate sustainable funding for and equitable access to the full range of evidence-based care delivery options, including nurses, nurse practitioners, home health care providers, and integrated teams which include family members. The goal is optimize access to evidence-based, customized, culturally sensitive, and age appropriate pathways to recovery.
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Recommendation 2:
Engage in formalized, proactive education with professionals in healthcare settings, police, and private service providers (such as landlords and private security companies) to raise awareness of social condition as a prohibited ground of discrimination.
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Recommendation 12:
Endorse the creation of a provincially-recognized best practices process outlining how to involve families affected by substance use disorders, and addressing privacy/confidentiality issues through the provincial expansion of policies like Vancouver Coastal Health’s Family Involvement Policy.
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Recommendation 8:
Ending the requirement that graduates of international medical schools sign a return of service contract as a condition of working as resident physicians where they ‘agree’ to work in the community and clinic where the government directs them for a specified number of years after they are fully licensed.
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Recommendation 186:
End the medical pathologizing and diagnosing of gender identity. Train healthcare professionals to provide gender-affirming care that is safe for and respectful of trans women and two-spirit people.
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Recommendation 185:
End the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women, and hold health professionals criminally responsible for acts of coerced sterilization.
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Recommendation 8:
Empower families by increasing inclusion of and support for family or caregivers of loved ones with substance use disorders. This includes involving families in overdose emergency response planning, local addiction services development, and establishing supports for families provincially to bring their life experiences and knowledge to inform.
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Recommendation 3:
Eliminate the English proficiency exam when medical training was undertaken primarily in the English language.
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