Advocating for Change on BC Family Doctor Day

On May 19, 2026, during BC Family Doctor Day, your family medicine colleagues representing BCCFP were at the Legislature to ensure your experiences and challenges remain part of the conversations shaping the future of primary care.

Everything we brought forward came directly from your feedback - through surveys, conversations, advocacy input sessions, and ongoing partner engagement throughout the year.

This year, we focused our discussions with government on three priorities you consistently told us matter most:

1. Supporting family physician-led team-based care that improves coordination and continuity for patients.
2. Reducing unnecessary administrative burden through connected digital systems.
3. Sustaining and strengthening supports for family physicians in rural and remote communities across BC.

Throughout the day, we met with government leaders, ministers, parliamentary secretaries, and MLAs from across the political spectrum to bring these priorities directly into decision-making conversations.

That included conversations with: Minister of Health, Josie Osborne; Parliamentary Secretary for Primary Care Access, MLA Stephanie Higginson; Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Health, MLA Debra Toporowski; Parliamentary Secretary for Anti-Racism Initiatives and Parliamentary Secretary for Mental Health and Addictions, MLA Amna Shah; Critic for Health, MLA Anna Kindy;

Independent MLA Amelia Boultbee; and other members of both the BC NDP and Conservative caucuses.

Along with BCCFP President, Dr. Jennifer Lush, here is a message from Minister Osborne and Parliamentary Secretary Higginson recognizing the impact you make every day in your communities:

Our annual Advocacy Day is about making sure the realities of family medicine - the pressures you’re navigating, the care you’re providing, and the solutions you see every day in practice - are reaching the people shaping policy in BC.

Advocacy is strongest when it is grounded in the lived experiences of our members, and we are grateful to every family physician who continues to share their perspective with us.

We will keep showing up and pushing for change.