In an interview, Health Minister Adrian Dix acknowledged complaints from former heads of BC Cancer about the agency’s governance in a week when B.C. also announced plans to tackle the province’s family doctor crisis
, leading to the growing waiting times and staff burnout now plaguing the system.
BC Cancer is a provincial, government-funded treatment and research organization, with six regional cancer centres in the province. The agency once had its own board of directors and a direct line to B.C.’s Ministry of Health. Dr. Sutcliffe conceded that some budget controls were needed. “We were shifting from the 1990s into the 2000s, and economic restraint was coming with it. But we didn’t need layers of fiscal management that superseded good medicine and science,” he said.
Mr. Dix answered The Globe and Mail’s questions on BC Cancer after a news conference to announce changes aimed at tackling another urgent problem: the lack of family physicians. Almost a million people in the province are without a family doctor, making access to primary care – including prescription renewals and other services – difficult to come by.that is aimed at recruiting, retaining and training new doctors, paramedics, nurses and other health practitioners.
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