The call was the most pressing to emerge from the legislature’s finance committee during its pre-budget consultations with the public.
The recommendation was prompted by what committee members heard through written submissions, an online survey and several weeks of public hearings.Article content “Members discussed how the current model of urgent and primary care centres may be confusing to British Columbians,” the report continued.Article content
Those findings amount to a significant critique of the government model for primary care because legislature committees usually proceed by consensus. In all, the committee made more than 200 recommendations regarding the budget to be presented in the legislature next February. “Members suggested that provincial mandates for municipal zoning coupled with advanced regional planning could expedite the construction of housing stock,” said the report.
Millions of dollars will go to consultants to inform us what we already know: primary care is utterly broken. Money would be better spent on fixing the system. I would suggest listening to those in the system as a way to find solutions