Health Care Action Plan
BC’s healthcare system is in chaos.
Temping doctors, orphaned patients: Turmoil continues in B.C. health-care system
Patients and doctors alike are feeling the effects of a turbulent health-care system, where clinic closures have B.C.’s physicians weighing their options as their orphaned patients plead to be seen by a shrinking number of general practitioners.
'We've been abandoned': Man dies in B.C. town waiting for health care near ambulance station
For the second time in less than a month, a resident of Ashcroft, B.C., died while waiting for health care.
Mayor Barbara Roden told CTV News Vancouver a man was walking his dog Sunday morning when he had a heart attack.
Crisis Conditions Are Worse.
As the crisis continues to get worse, the NDP are doing nothing.
It’s time for a real plan to tackle this crisis and make sure our healthcare system is there for people when they need it.
The BC Liberal party is the only party with a real plan to get our healthcare system back on track:
- Expand doctor training spaces at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Medical School from 288 to 400 where, currently, there have been zero seats added under the two-term NDP government;
- Fulfill the NDP’s broken promise to create a second medical school at Simon Fraser University (SFU);
- Drastically increase the number of residencies available for international medical graduates (IMGs) from 56 to 150 with the goal of continued expansion;
- Reduce barriers for internationally-trained physicians who have passed the initial Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Exam (MCCQE);
- Expand the capacity of the Practice-Ready Assessment (PRA-BC) program for internationally-trained doctors;
- Support more collaborative team-based care; and
- Consult with physicians, pharmacists, and stakeholders on expanding the scope of practice for pharmacists and allow them to assess and prescribe medications for minor ailments within a team-based care model.
- Provide family physicians and specialists greater financial compensation for overhead and operating costs;
- Provide increased compensation for unpaid work and indirect care;
- Audit the ongoing dysfunction of the NDP’s Urgent and Primary Care Centres (UPCCs);
- Reduce the onerous administrative burden on family physicians through the elimination of redundant paperwork;
- Allow for more collaborative team-based care and addressing the shortage of locum resources;
- Finally release a health human resources plan — something the NDP has been promising for years.
