☎  What happens when you put BC’s biggest healthcare pain points on the table—and agree that “we’ve always done it this way” isn’t a strategy?

🗨️  In this special episode, BC Premier David Eby, joins us for a sit down candid, practical conversation about the realities of modernizing healthcare in British Columbia—starting with the unglamorous but high-impact stuff: cutting administrative duplication across health authorities, centralizing procurement and shared services, and creating clearer accountability so problems get fixed faster.

 🎙️We explore what frontline clinicians want: a tighter feedback loop where ideas from pharmacists, nurses, physicians, and allied health don’t disappear into a “suggestion box” black hole and unpack the real promise—and real limits—of AI integration into day to day healthcare across BC: where it’s already helping, and what it takes to scale innovation safely with privacy protections.

 🎙️BC Cancer—and the growing operational pressure of rising diagnoses, delayed access, and complex patient journeys. Premier Eby shares what’s underway and tackles a question that may be on the minds of HCPs and caregivers: do we need to revisit BC’s 10-year cancer plan to match today’s system realities and  explore practical system fixes like patient navigators om the BC Cancer care pathway.

 🎙️You’ll also hear a frank discussion on expanding pharmacy-delivered care, the pressures and possibilities of minor ailments and contraceptive services, and how new reimbursement models may unlock pharmacist impact beyond the walls of a community pharmacy.

 🎙️This episode arguably tackles some of the toughest files facing the Ministry of Health: rare-disease drug reimbursement decisions, transparency and modernization in PharmaCare, balancing urgent access with fair pricing, and what meaningful accountability looks like when care delivery goes wrong.We also unpack regulation and oversight through the Health Professions Act: is it enough to protect the public and drive system-level learning, or do we need additional tools in the middle ground between individual college complaints and full-blown litigation?

▶️If you’re a frontline clinician, health leader, or policy-watcher who wants less theatre and more solutions—this one’s for you.

💡💡 In this episode, we look at:

• The role of a new provincial “shared services” model and health authority optimization
• What a province-wide AI strategy needs before it touches routine prescribing workflows
• Where pharmacist scope is heading—and what may be missing to make it sustainable
• Why rare-disease drug coverage decisions feel like a black box (and how to fix that) and Pharmacare
• The case for better patient navigation during their cancer care journey

In collaboration with the Pharmacy Leaders of Tomorrow.  

Our hearts are with everyone affected—along with their families, friends, and the Tumbler Ridge, B.C. community—coping  with an unimaginable loss during this heartbreaking time. 

ABOUT BC Premier Hon. David Eby, KC

David Eby is a determined problem-solver who has spent a lifetime taking on powerful interests to get things done for people.

As Premier of B.C., David is taking action on the biggest challenges facing British Columbians. He’s standing up to wealthy speculators and investors to deliver more homes middle-class people can afford. He’s working to ease the pressure of everyday costs, from reducing car insurance and childcare bills to making prescription birth control free. And he’s strengthening health care by building hospitals and hiring more family doctors.

Under David’s leadership, B.C. is an economic leader in Canada—creating tens of thousands of good-paying jobs to deliver the lowest unemployment rate and some of the fastest growing wages in the country.

Alongside John Horgan, David got the influence of big money out of B.C.’s elections and cracked down on money laundering in casinos and real estate. He took on opioid manufacturers and delivered a first-of-its-kind settlement to hold corporations accountable for the overdose crisis. He stood up to the trial lawyers and removed legal costs from ICBC process to reduce car insurance rates by an average of $500 a year for drivers.  He even went after organized crime—closing down Hells Angels clubhouses and targeting the proceeds of crime to make our communities safer.

Before being elected as the MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey, David was an award-winning lawyer and legal scholar. He started his career on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, defending the homes of low-income people from big developers and slum lords. His work on human rights and democratic freedoms has been recognized by the United Nations Association in Canada and the B.C. Human Rights Coalition.

David was an adjunct professor of law at the University of British Columbia, president of the HIV-AIDS Legal Network, and served on the Vancouver Foundation’s Health and Social Development Committee. From 2009 to 2013, David ran the B.C. Civil Liberties Association as executive director.

David was raised in a suburban middle-class home. The son of a schoolteacher and a lawyer, he remains grounded in the values he grew up with – commitment to family, community, and helping the less fortunate. He is now a proud husband and father with three children of his own, Ezra, Iva, and baby Gwen. He loves playing with his kids, practising yoga and hanging out with his wife Cailey, a family doctor in Vancouver.

As B.C.’s 37th premier, David is working hard to build a better, stronger future for everyone. Because he believes his kids and all British Columbians deserve the same opportunities to build a good life. 

 

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