Learn more about the Ministry of Health’s Primary and Community Care Strategy for BC.
” It is expected the BC population will grow at an annual rate of 1.3% per year to 5,229,463 by 2022. After which time population growth is projected to slow to just below one percent towards the end of the projection period reaching 6,057,948 persons in 2036.”
“Primary and community care is a major component of the British Columbia (BC) health system, delivering over thirty million health care services each year to BC’s 4.5 million residents, with a total expenditure of approximately $5.4 billion. Nearly every British Columbian has contact with this part of the health care system each year.”
Read more: primary-and-community-care-policy-paper