A majority of family physicians in British Columbia are receiving interim funding to support family doctors with overhead costs as part of a multi-phased approach to help protect and support B.C.'s health-care system.

The Province’s efforts to make it free and easier for people to get the best protection possible against influenza and COVID-19 are paying off.

People accessing health care in the Lower Mainland, North Shore, Sunshine Coast and Sea-to-Sky will benefit from more stable, consistent and supportive patient care as 864 environmental services and food-service workers return to the public system as Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) employees.

The Province is taking steps to build safer workplaces for health-care workers and patients by introducing a new security model across all health authorities, hiring more protection services employees and expanding funding to SWITCH BC, a new organization focused on addressing workplace safety.

Patient safety will be enhanced, oversight of health regulatory colleges strengthened and governance of health professionals improved with ground-breaking legislation.

People in northwestern B.C. will soon have access to enhanced mental-health services in a new state-of-the-art Seven Sisters mental-health facility under construction in Terrace.

A $22-million capital investment will fund an expanded oncology clinic at Penticton Regional Hospital.