Needs-Based Planning

Planning health services to address patient needs collaboratively with communities, stakeholders, and health planning decision-makers has the potential to create a sustainable and cost effective system.


  • provides background on the topic of needs-based planning;
  • describes the work that Perinatal Services BC has done in developing a starting framework for communities who wish to engage in a needs-based planning process; and
  • outlines the projects and initiatives of PSBC that support needs-based planning on a provincial level.