Our vision
SSC strives to improve access to quality, patient-centred, and culturally safe specialty care.
Our mission
To advance its vision, SSC provides supports and resources to:
Enhance specialist practice and their work environments
- Reduce administrative burdens and enhance joy in work
- Support full professional scopes of practice and team-based care
- Develop and improve processes for effective and efficient care
- Foster trust and relationships with practitioners, administrators, and patient partners to solve problems together
Enable specialists to be change leaders in the health system
- Support and develop physician leaders in formal and informal roles
- Develop quality-improvement skills, knowledge, and culture
- Foster opportunities for specialists and system partners to engage and address shared priorities at local, regional, and provincial levels
Support specialist care innovation
- Provide resources for specialist-led clinic or facility-based projects that assess innovative approaches for improving care delivery
- Assess approaches for spreading specialist care-delivery improvements with system partners
- Foster the transition of proven innovation projects into the health system
Download our new one-page Strategic Framework for 2025-30.
See SSC brochure for more information.
Our Structure and Funding
The Specialist Services Committee (SSC) is one of four joint collaborative committees that represent a partnership of the Government of BC and Doctors of BC, and includes regular representation from health authorities. SSC formed in 2006 under the Physician Master Agreement to help Doctors of BC, BC government and health authorities collaborate on the delivery of specialist services and support improvement of the specialist care system in BC.
Click on each of the Joint Collaborative Committees below to learn more:
Family Practice Services Committee (FPSC)
Shared Care Committee (SCC)
Specialist Services Committee (SSC)
Joint Standing Committee on Rural Issues (JSC)
