Seniors on Vancouver Island are benefiting from a more than $6.4-million investment in 2018-19 to increase staffing levels and ensure that seniors get the care they need in residential care homes.

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.

A new intensive care unit (ICU) at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (NRGH) will help meet the demands of a growing and aging population and offer improved care for critically ill patients.

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.

Surrey residents now have improved same-day access to urgent primary care with the opening of the new Surrey Urgent Primary Care Centre.

People throughout the province, including patients, families and especially seniors and people with disabilities, will benefit as legislation that has been introduced takes aim at improving working conditions for health and social-sector employees.

British Columbians who do not identify as male or female will have the choice to display an X as a third option in the gender field of their B.C.-issued driver’s licence, identity card, birth certificate and BC Services Card.

The Quesnel Urgent Primary Care Centre will soon open to provide people a new option for same-day access to urgent primary care.

Better care is on the way for people in Fort St. James and the surrounding region.

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