2025 Physician Master Agreement

Doctors of BC and the BC government agreed to delay the beginning of negotiations until after the newly elected government establishes its first budget.

Negotiations commenced in March 2025 and are ongoing.

In June of 2024, Doctors of BC’s Negotiations team developed the draft negotiating plan. The plan was reviewed by the Negotiations Coordinating Group and the Negotiations Forum. In December 2024, the Board reviewed the negotiating plan and considered it for approval.

Member input and feedback was gathered through the following avenues:

• Negotiations survey of all members to identify overall member priorities.
• Briefings with each Section and Society, as well as meetings with Doctors of BC members on each Joint Collaborative Committee and the Alternative Issues Payment Committee, to outline the PMA negotiations context and discuss priorities (each group then provided a written submission).
• Two virtual member consultation webinars and Q and A sessions to provide negotiations context as a background for written submissions identifying individual member priorities.
• Representative Assembly briefing and workshop to determine overarching negotiations principles.