access to care

In 2014, Doctors of BC published our policy paper Reaching Out: Supporting Youth Mental Health in British Columbia. Our new policy statement builds on that paper and calls for re-evaluating the current structure of the mental health system and developing concrete and tangible steps to improve care and access for children and youth.

To address long diagnostic wait times and delayed provision of care across a variety of health care contexts and specialties, Doctors of BC calls for immediate actions to address critical challenges with access to medical imaging services in BC.

Doctors of BC Position: Physicians are faced with a growing number of demands that can lead to unmanageable time constraints, and expectations to deliver beyond what can be reasonably expected in a single day. Many of these demands, such as paperwork, charting, and EMR management, do not allow physicians time to provide the best possible patient care, and can negatively affect physician wellbeing. Doctors of BC calls on all health care stakeholders to carefully consider how any new ask or proposed change may affect the wider health care system’s accessibility and quality.

Doctors of BC Position: Doctors of BC recognizes the surgical care challenges in BC, including growing wait lists, surgical wait-times, and the shortage of health care staff and the additional burdens on surgeons, anesthesiologists, and other health care providers.

Doctors of BC Position: Physicians are faced with a growing number of demands that can lead to unmanageable time constraints and expectations to deliver beyond what can be reasonably expected in a single day. Doctors of BC encourages all health care stakeholders to carefully consider how any new ask or proposed change may ripple through the health care system to impact quality and accessibility of care and physician workflow using a ‘cumulative impact lens’ prior to implementation.