Action Dispatch: Still watching for public solutions to wait times
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- Published on Sunday, 29 November -0001 16:00
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Action Dispatch
Paov --
The BC government released the sixth update to its Surgical Renewal Plan last month, and we are concerned by what we see. We need your help to respond!
Last June, with the release of the Surgical Renewal Plan, over 4000 of you wrote a letter to Minister of Health Adrian Dix. Together we asked the government to be bold and implement already proven public solutions that build the public capacity of our surgical system, now and far into the future. Today, we are asking you to follow-up with another letter telling Minister Dix you are still waiting for investments in public, long-term solutions to reduce surgical wait times. With your support, we can pressure the government to invest in our public health care system.
Click here to send a letterIn the Ministry... of Health's sixth update to the Surgical Renewal Plan, we are alarmed to note:
- A significant increase in outsourcing of surgeries to private, for-profit surgery clinics, with several clinics running at full or increased contracted capacity
- No mention of public innovations to our surgical system such as improved waitlist management and centralized intake
- No mention of attempts to hire professionals that are essential for quality team-based, pre- and post-surgical care. These include medical imaging technologists as well as rehabilitation staff—including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and dieticians.
Paov, we cannot afford to further entrench private, for-profit surgical clinics and their investors on our health care system. We need bold public investments in proven solutions that will improve our public health system in the long run. The Surgical Renewal Plan Update #6 reports the opposite.
Please go to our letter-writing campaign page now to send an email to Dix renewing your call for long-term improvements to our public health care system. Tell him we don’t just want him to catch up on our surgical backlog from the pandemic. Ask him to invest in our public system so we are more resilient when faced with future stresses.
In solidarity,
Audrey Guay, BC Health Coalition
British Columbia Health Coalition · 3102 Main St, 302,
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories, BC V5T 3G7, Canada
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