Programs offered
Advance Care Planning
Offers an Advance Care Planning Guide, available for download or ordering, as well as online resources, videos and brochures. The planning guide is available in multiple languages; see website.
Alcohol Sense
Baby's Best Chance Handbook
BC Air Quality
BC Palliative Care Benefits
Eligible patients receive coverage of eligible costs for medications used in palliative care through the PharmaCare BC Palliative Care Drug Plan, and medical supplies and equipment through the local health authority.
BC Services Card Information
BC Smoking Cessation Program
Prescription smoking cessation drugs are covered as benefits under PharmaCare. Non-prescription nicotine replacement therapy products are provided at no cost.
Child Health Passport
COVID-19 Immunization
COVID-19 and influenza vaccines are free and available at pharmacies, health authority clinics and some primary care providers' offices.
Expected/Planned Home Deaths
Health Reports and Publications
Here2Talk
The program can help with concerns such as stress, feelings of isolation or loneliness, anxiety, frustration, the balance between personal and academic priorities, adapting to new campus culture or city, time-management, and tension with family, friends or instructors.
In-Vitro Fertilization Funding Program
Provides access to one-time funding for eligible BC residents who require in vitro fertilization (IVF) as part of their path to parenthood. The program covers a single standard cycle of IVF treatment at participating BC fertility clinics.
Influenza Vaccine
Provides influenza vaccine information including vaccine registration and bookings, enhanced vaccines available for seniors, and options to get the flu vaccine for your child. Everyone 6 months and over can get a flu vaccine.
Integrated Child and Youth Teams
Provides wrap-around mental health and substance use services to children and youth. Multi-disciplinary teams may include program leaders, clinicians, counsellors, peer supports, Indigenous supports, or multicultural supports.
Teams provide services where children and youth feel safe and comfortable, within school district areas. They will deliver outreach or outbound services as well as meet in office settings. See website for regional contacts to access services.
Medical Travel Accommodation Listing
Office of the Seniors Advocate
Seniors who have issues accessing health care services or with the health care they received, can call to receive advice for timely resolution of problems, or report concerns about their care.
Opioid Treatment Access Line
Provides confidential and same-day access to opioid agonist treatment medication for people throughout BC with opioid use disorder to prevent withdrawals, reduce cravings and the risk of overdoses.
People can call the access line to speak with a doctor or nurse over the phone who can prescribe the medication and offer connections to supports in the community.
Patient Care Quality Complaints
Patients as Partners
The program is provided in partnership with non-governmental organizations, funded partners, regional health authorities, and a variety of health-care providers.
Pharmacy Services in BC
See the website for a self-assessment checklist to check your symptoms and a list of minor ailments or types of free contraceptives that individuals can see a pharmacist to get an assessment and prescription.
SeniorsBC
Resources include downloadable versions of the BC Seniors' Guide, BC Elders' Guide, Healthy Eating for Seniors handbook, Elder Abuse Prevention information kits, and My Voice advance care planning guide and workbook.
Surgical Wait Times
Toddler's First Steps Guide
Travel Assistance Program
The program is coordinated by the Ministry of Health and the transportation partners who agree to waive or discount their regular fees. The program does not provide direct financial assistance to patients for travel costs.