Fédération des francophones de la Colombie-Britannique Annual Report 2002-2003

> At The Provincial Level, continued

Health

Networking and meetings to create
the Société Santé en franeais.

The FFCB took part in the founding conference of the Société Santé the provincial
en frangais on November 30 and December 1, 2002 in Ottawa. The ional levels culminated in the presentation of itiative
Société is the national cooperative healthcare network made up of aimed at creating a netv dedicated to healthcare issu French in
provincial and territorial health networks. our province. i —

Establishing the healthcare
roundtable in B.C.

Since last summer, the FFCB has been involved
in establishing the healthcare roundtable, the
Table sectorielle de santé.

As a result of ongoing work on this issue,
the roundtable held its first meeting on
January 13, 2003.

To ensure that the roundtable’s work is
coordinated and that there is continuity and
ongoing support on any directions that are
developed, it was decided to retain the services
of Ms. Héléne Cameron, who is very familiar
with healthcare issues. Ms. Cameron worked
on setting up the health conference in British
Columbia in March 2002.

Obviously, this initiative’s long-term success
depends on securing funding from government

se From left to right:
authorities.

Dr. Aurel Scolfield (Member of Comité consultatif des communautés francophones en situation minoritaire),

. . Armand Boudreau (Director Société santé en francais), Serge Corbeil (Coordinator of Government Relations
The FFCB’s health report 2002 is available on

. . . and Research, FFCB), Héléne Cameron (Coordinator of the Table sectorielle en santé)
the www-ficb.bc.ca site under Publications.

surrounded by: Mary Fulton (Director of Health Canada), Marie Dussault (Réseaux-Femmes C.-B.),

. . Josette Desquins (Director of Student Services, CSF), Dr. Brian Conway (Assistant Professor, UBC)
The roundtable is made up of major stakehold-

ers in the healthcare sector, such as agencies

and/or people working in healthcare in British

Columbia. They represent groups that are or group members representing the commu-
recognized by the Comité consultatif des nity, institutions, professionals, government
communautés francophones en situation and health training institutions.

minoritaire and the Société Santé en francais

as being important partners in a network that

improves access to health services in French.

The roundtable is made up of 19 individual