Put Healthcare on the Ballot

Explore BC Family Doctors’ shared priorities that you told us were important to you. Use them to guide your conversations.

Working alongside our Doctors of BC, BC College of Family Physician and Consultant Specialists of BC partners let’s make healthcare a priority in this election!

1. Reduce Administrative Burdens

Family physicians are drowning under administrative burdens, spending too much time on paperwork, navigating fragmented digital systems and unnecessary administrative tasks.

We’re asking for:

• Develop and coordinated provincial plan for interoperability among EMRs and other provincial digital health systems to enable secure, seamless information sharing, and implement thoughtfully to support clinical workflows.
• Invest in initiatives to reduce or eliminate redundant and unnecessary forms from private insurers, workplaces and health authorities.
• Establish a province-wide solution for reports distribution to enable physicians to access the right results for the patient in the right location, reducing wasteful and duplicative efforts.

2. Make Team-Based Care a Reality

Well-supported, high-functioning teams will ensure every British Columbian receives comprehensive, high-quality care from their family doctor close to home.

We’re asking for:

• Implement a BC Primary Care Act that provides a framework for the design and support of primary care teams and outlines what British Columbians can expect when accessing primary care services.

• Expand programs that fund and support the integration of nurses, nurse practitioners, and psychologists into physician clinics.
• Support the integration of physician assistants in BC, enabling them to work in family physician-led practices to improve patients’ access to care.
• Improve BC’s physician payment models to allow physicians to bill for care provided by nurses and other health professionals.

3. Improve Support for Rural Physicians and Rural Healthcare

Rural British Columbians deserve access to sustainable, appropriate healthcare close to home — and when they need a higher level of care, they must be able to access it in a reasonable timeframe.

We’re asking for:

• Enact Brayden’s Law and amend BC’s Emergency Health Services Act to invest in and modernize our emergency transport systems to ensure rural patients have equitable access to timely care.
• Protect the rural healthcare services that are already working, including the Real-Time Virtual Support (RTVS) service.
• Provide immediate support, including improved compensation and financial incentives, for emergency, critical care, maternity and pediatric physicians working in rural communities.
• Invest in the recruitment and retention of a robust rural physician and allied healthcare workforce, including support for rural training, team-based care and reliable locum support.

4. Respect Physician’s Professional Autonomy

Healthcare regulations must be free from politicization and doctors must be afforded professional autonomy to used their training, clinical expertise, therapeutic relationships and experience to care for their patients without interference.

We’re asking for:

• Enact a pause and instigate a further review of the HPOA to support a regulatory approach that respects the expertise and professional autonomy of physicians and upholds public safety and accountability.
• Uphold physician’s clinical discretion for individual patient care decisions within evidence-based, guideline-informed frameworks.
• Respect the established role of then College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC in regulating medical practice and ensure that decisions affecting clinical practice remain grounded in professional standards and regulatory oversight.

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