Medicines Access Coalition - BC
(formerly the better pharmacare coalition)
The Medicines Access Coalition – BC brings together patient organizations from across BC and Canada to be a dominant and unified voice to bring awareness, education, attention, and change as necessary to improve access to medicines, leading to improved health outcomes for the people of BC.

What We Do
As a coalition, we interact with many stakeholders who participate or influence the decisions directly affecting the access to medicines including, policy makers, government, researchers, academics, health practitioners, public and private health payers, benefit managers/consultants, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and others who play a role in the access to medicines.
We are raising awareness of medicine access issues, providing training and education to our members (and non-members), developing resources, delivering stakeholder activities, conducting research, providing education, supporting our members’ activities, and are active in advocacy.
We work collectively towards maintaining and improving access to medications, medical technologies, and medical devices and ensuring that health policy decisions focus on patient needs and outcomes. We represent a strong and unified patient voice safeguarding the health and well-being of patients, that health outcomes are prioritized, and that the pursuit of cost containment does not cause harm to people when it comes to decisions on medicines.
2025 British Columbia Medication Coverage Report - Building a Path Toward Equity

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In January 2024, the Gastrointestinal Society, a member of the MedAccessBC Coalition, unveiled a groundbreaking analysis shedding light on the concerning inequity in British Columbia’s public drug plan. The findings underscore that BC not only allocates the least per capita but also provides coverage for fewer prescription medicines compared with all other provinces in Canada.
The 2025 British Columbia Medication Coverage Report – Building a Path Toward Equity, provides an update on the advocacy and awareness efforts. This report, which was produced by the Gastrointestinal (GI) Society, a member of MedAccess BC, highlights the limited changes that have taken place to ensure equitable coverage of lifesaving and life-altering treatments for patients in BC over the past year.
The report also emphasizes that opportunities for improving access to therapies will be limited by a PharmaCare budget that will remain stagnant over the next three years while all other parts of the health system receive increased investment.
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Member Organizations
aHUS Canada
ALS Action Canada
BC Coalition of Osteoporosis Physicians
BC Hepatitis Network
BC Lung Foundation
BC Lymphedema Association
BC Schizophrenia Society
Canadian Arthritis Patients Alliance
Canadian Cancer Society
Canadian Cancer Survivor Network
Canadian PKU and Allied Disorders
Canadian Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation
Canadian Skin Patient Alliance
Canadian Society of Intestinal Research
Canadian Sponyloarthritis Association
Crohn’s and Colitis Canada
Cure SMA Canada
Diabetes Canada
Eczema Society of Canada
Gastrointestinal Society
Heartlife Foundation
Kidney Cancer Canada
Kidney Foundation of Canada
Migraine Canada
Mood Disorders/Lookout Society
MS Canada
Obesity Canada
Osteoporosis Canada
Pain BC
Parkinson Society of British Columbia
Prostate Cancer Foundation Canada
Psoriasis Canada
Pulmonary Hypertension Association of Canada
Save Your Skin Foundation
Tumour Foundation of BC