For 240,000 British Columbian families, the new year brings the help they need with prescription drugs, thanks to a three-year $105-million investment that is reducing or eliminating deductibles and co-payments for lower-income households.

Residents in Vancouver’s downtown and West End now have improved access to team-based urgent primary care with the opening of the City Centre Urgent Primary Care Centre.

Transgender people in British Columbia will soon have access to publicly funded gender-affirming lower surgeries within the province, as British Columbia becomes the first province in western Canada to offer these procedures next year.

People who are deaf and hard of hearing will soon benefit from a new state-of-the-art centre of excellence in Vancouver.

BC Cancer’s Breast Screening Program will now include breast density information with all screening mammogram results sent to B.C. women and their care providers. This inclusive process will begin mid-October, announced Adrian Dix, Minister of Health.

People living and working in residential-care homes throughout B.C. will benefit from $2.6 million in provincial funding, which has been allocated to purchase new equipment that will help improve safety and quality of life of residents.