Category: Government

The province of B.C. took steps to make it easier for international trained nurses to enter the health care system to meet the increasing demand for nurses in the province.  Together with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM), the Nursing Community Assessment Service (NCAS) and Health Match BC...

B.C.’s Green Party leader Sonia Furstenau will be hosting a townhall to address the family doctor shortage. According to Furstenau, around 900,000 British Columbians do not have access to a family doctor. Part of the reason, she claims, for this shortage is that the province’s payment model is such that much of...

Thursday, April 14, 2022 marked the six-year anniversary of B.C.’s deadly overdoses crisis which was declared a public emergency in 2016 by the previous provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall. The declaration allowed “medical health officers throughout the province to collect more robust, real-time information on overdoses in order to...