YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Strengthening our health care system

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This new payment model was developed collaboratively by Doctors of B.C. and the province to help ensure that family doctors are empowered to practice here. It is a significant departure from the existing fee-for-service model, which is decades old, and addresses some of the key challenges doctors faced with that model.

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This latest announcement follows other measures we’re taking to get people more options for team-based healthcare, including expanding education and training for allied health and healthcare careers, and making it easier for internationally-trained medical professionals to become accredited in B.C. We are always expanding our Primary Care Networks, including opening new Urgent and Primary Care Centres across the province.

We also gave pharmacists more power to renew prescriptions so patients can spend less time waiting to see a doctor for routine refills. We’re working to widen the scope of prescriptions that pharmacists can renew and adapt and give them the ability to prescribe medication for routine needs, including asthma, acne, and contraception.

There’s absolutely more work to do, and we are committed to making our health-care system as strong as possible so that all British Columbians can access quality health care.

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Editor’s Note: This opinion piece reflects the views of its author, and does not necessarily represent the views of Fraser Valley Today or Pattison Media.