B.C. health minister Dix ‘delighted’ premiers finally set to meet PM on funding
British Columbia’s health minister says he’s “delighted” Canada’s premiers are set to meet with the prime minister early next month to discuss a potential deal to increase federal health funding.
Asked whether B.C. is open to measures aimed at ensuring funding is used to directly improve care, Dix told reporters B.C. is “meeting the test” as it undertakes “massive” reforms in primary care. While provinces and territories are responsible for health-care delivery, Ottawa provides a transfer to cover some of the costs. In 2022-23, that transfer totalled $45 billion, an increase of more than 40 per cent in the last eight years.
Dix told a news conference that “massive and transformative actions” required in B.C.’s health-care system are taking place, but the province needs the federal government’s help in order for the changes to be sustainable over the long term. The province is also launching mobile computed tomography or CT diagnostic services, he says, cutting down on travel time for patients across the north island.
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