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Regionalizing Health Care Budgets in BC

April 1, 2002

The government of British Columbia’s 1993 health reform initiative, “New Directions for a Healthy BC,” signaled the beginning of regionalization – decentralization to address local health care and promote community-based care. 

In this 2002 policy paper, the Doctors of BC concluded that...
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BCMA Presentation to the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada – A Vision for Sustaining Medicare

March 12, 2002

New thinking is required to ensure that Canadians have timely access to medically necessary services.

Canada’s public health care program has been shaped by the principles of the Canada Health Act (CHA): universality, comprehensiveness, accessibility, portability and public administration...
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Turning the Tide Part II – A New Course for Health Care

May 1, 2001

British Columbia’s health care system is in urgent need of renewal. This report proposes 29 recommendations and 48 specific actions to address that need. In a companion paper completed in July of 2000, the doctors of British Columbia concluded that the current health care system was ...
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Obtaining Effective Medical Input Into Regional Decision Making

October 1, 2000

The ongoing lack of effective public and professional input into regional health care decision-making is of considerable concern. For example, although Regional Health Boards (RHBs) and Community Health Councils (CHCs) have been in place for more than 3 years, at time of publication 6 of BC’s...
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Turning the Tide Part I – Saving Medicare for Canadians

July 1, 2000

For more than three decades Canadians took pride in having one of the best health care systems in the world. In recent years, however, that pride has turned to dismay as reports of system failure and patient suffering proliferate across Canada. Long waiting lists for treatment, crowded emergency...
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