Columnist Keith Baldrey says: “The ideological defenders of the public health-care system (who think the answer to everything is to blindly spend gargantuan amounts of more money) think the only measuring stick worth anything is per capita spending.”

According to a national study, for every $10 invested in housing the mentally ill or drug addicted, $9.60 was saved in taxpayer-funded services such as emergency rooms and shelter beds.

“The cuts to funding of the (VCH) Mid Main Community Health Centre are typical of the decision-making style of this government, penny-wise and pound-foolish.”

As many as 15,000 patients in Vancouver could see dramatic changes in how they receive medical care in the next year if VCH changes how five community health centres are operated. With quotes from Dr. David Hall, the medical director of primary care for VCH.

A plan to change the services offered at five community health care clinics in Vancouver will undermine health care across the city, and force all but the most vulnerable patients to find a new family doctor, according to the NDP. With quotes from Dr. David Hall, the medical director of primary care for Vancouver Community.

The BC NDP want to change the Local Food Act, establishing a set of guidelines to procure local food purchases at government institutions. With comments from Anna Marie D’Angelo, a spokesperson at VCH.

A Cochrane, Alberta couple was part of a group of six who rescued 24-year-old Christine Newman.

A 24-year-old woman is alive after being found all but dead in the snow near Squamish. With quotes from Dr. Vinay Dhingra, a critical care physician at VGH.

VCH is consolidating five community health clinics under one roof. With quotes from Dr. David Hall, medical director of primary care at VCH.

The NDP are concerned about VCH plans to change services offered at five community health centres. With quotes from Dr. David Hall, medical director of primary care at VCH.