{"id":3240,"date":"2024-01-29T11:53:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T19:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/safecarebc.ca\/?page_id=3240"},"modified":"2025-04-22T08:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:44:58","slug":"provincial-health-officer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/?page_id=3240","title":{"rendered":"Health and safety information for health professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Provincial Health Officer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Provincial Health Officer (PHO) is the senior public health official for British Columbia. The PHO provides independent advice to public officials on public health issues. Their responsibilities include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Provides independent advice to Ministers and public officials on public health issues;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monitors the health of the population of British Columbia and advises, in an independent manner, the ministers and public officials on public health issues and the need for public health-related legislation, policies and practices;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recommends actions to improve health and wellness in BC;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Delivers reports that are in the public interest and annual reports on the health of the population and the government\u2019s progress in achieving population health targets;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Establishes standards of practice for and conducts performance reviews of Medical Health Officers and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Works with the BC Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and BC\u2019s Medical Health Officers to fulfill their legislated disease control and health protection mandates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/health\/about-bc-s-health-care-system\/office-of-the-provincial-health-officer\/current-health-issues\">Current health topics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/health\/about-bc-s-health-care-system\/office-of-the-provincial-health-officer\/reports-publications\">PHO reports and publications<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/health\/about-bc-s-health-care-system\/office-of-the-provincial-health-officer\/laws-related-to-health-in-bc\">Laws related to health in British Columbia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BC Centre for Disease Control produces and shares evidence-based information, education and resources about disease control with health professionals across the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find information for health professionals at the BCCDC website, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bccdc.ca\/health-professionals\/clinical-resources\">Clinical resources<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bccdc.ca\/health-professionals\/data-reports\">Data and reports<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bccdc.ca\/health-professionals\/education-development\">Education and development<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bccdc.ca\/health-professionals\/professional-resources\">Professional resources<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Provincial Health Officer provides independent advice to public officials on public health issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3240","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-15 18:31:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6481,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3240\/revisions\/6481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}