The BC government is expanding its health authority review to include regional health authorities as it focuses on minimizing unnecessary administrative spending and ensuring resources support front-line patient care.
“I would like to thank the thousands of front-line workers who have already brought forward valuable feedback and ideas as we work through the health authority review,” said Josie Osborne, Minister of Health.
“Next we are expanding more broadly to engage a wider range of stakeholders, partners and people working at regional health authorities to ensure we are focusing resources on patient care as much as possible.”
As part of the review, more than 6,200 staff attended a series of town halls and large group meetings and submitted more than 1,000 questions and comments.
More than 3,900 provincial health services staff have also shared ideas.
While findings from the review will shape recommendations and changes throughout the health system, the Province says the regional health authority model is essential to health-care delivery and collapsing or merging the authorities is not under consideration as part of the review.
According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, B.C.’s health-care system has among the lowest levels of administrative spending in Canada and its corporate services expense ratio has remained relatively stable in the past five years, at around 3.5%, the second lowest in Canada and below the national average of 4.4%.
The Province anticipates that the health authority review, both for the PHSA and the regional health authorities, will continue into the fall and be complete in early 2026.
To learn more, visit Government of British Columbia.
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