Cancer Care Public Meetings Here

Thursday, March 02, 2006 04:01 AM

Co-Chairs Jeff Burghardt and Charles Jago last Novemeber when they announced their public consultation process Opinion250 file photo

Tonight, there will be the first of two public sessions to gather your input on cancer care for the north.

The discussion paper, "A Northern Vision" outlines some of the challenges facing the region, you can still get a copy from any Northern Health Authority site, or it can e downloaded from the website www.northerncancercare.ca .

The paper makes one thing very clear ; if there is a cancer care centre, it will be in Prince George.

Tonight's session is the first of more than a dozen that will be held throughout the Northern Health area. It is set to start at 7 at the Coast Inn of the North. The second session for Prince George is set for tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 at the Coast Inn of the North.

Co-Chairs Jeff Burghardt (Northern Health Chair) and UNBC President Charles Jago say the sessions are critical to putting together a complete report on how cancer care can be delivered to patients in the north. The two are also holding focus groups with people who have travelled the cancer journey either as a patient or as a family member and are accepting web submitted information through www.northerncancercare.ca

The information will be developed into a final report due by the end of June.

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Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 04:01 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: Gofaster on March 2 2006 8:42 AM

Geee! More meetings, more consulting, a lot of blow hards, and nothing getting done. This sounds like our government...
sorry my opinion

Posted by: camoose on March 2 2006 10:38 AM

I agree. It's just smoke and mirrors so they can say that they have consulted the people. Just git it done and give us our cancer clinic that the NDP promised years ago.

Posted by: diplomat on March 2 2006 12:11 PM

>"Just git it done and give us our cancer clinic that the NDP promised years ago."<

Exactly! Harcourt promised us the P.G. cancer clinic just to get the NDP elected and then the NDP did nothing for the next ten years!

(Except double the debt while running huge surplus budgets, of course!).

The bus shuttle service for the transport of patients which is about to be implemented does not bode well, in my opinion.

I have the gut feeling that P.G. has been shoved on the back burner again, probably for the next ten years.

All the studies and meetings that are about to begin don't mention the words "Cancer Clinic" at all, just "Improved Cancer Care in Northern B.C."

If those in power were serious we would have a full fledged cancer clinic in less than 3 years from the word go!

Sorry, but we will get a whole bunch of time consuming and expensive studies instead of the real deal!

We already KNOW that we need and deserve a Cancer Clinic and ought not settle for some hybrid low grade substitute arrangements!

Sorry, Ed, if this is too pessimistic and reads like negative moaning, groaning and whining!

Cheers!