notice of motion on April 27.<\/a> Council approved it May 11.<\/p>\nLast year Locke asked staff to explore a dedicated health care administrator role to help advance the city\u2019s health care priorities. \u201cSince then the city has made meaningful progress \u2013 we are moving ahead with community clinics, working with local physicians, and the Surrey-North Delta division of family practices,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She wants the panel to advise council on community health and well-being and include volunteers \u201cwith expertise in areas such as primary care, mental health and addictions, public health, seniors care, child and maternal health, Indigenous health equity, patient advocacy and health-systems policy.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said the panel would be expected to provide \u201cnon-binding\u201d advice on municipal actions, advocacy priorities, emerging health issues and partnership opportunities with city staff bringing forward a draft terms of reference \u201cincluding composition, appointment process, meeting structure, reporting process and support through the city manager\u2019s office.\u201d<\/p>\n
City manager Rob Costanzo said these won\u2019t be paid positions.<\/p>\n
Locke said representatives from the ministry of health and Fraser Health should be invited to participate as non-voting liaison reps.<\/p>\n
The motion passed with Councillors Linda Annis and Mike Bose opposed.<\/p>\n
Locke also presented a second notice of motion, which council also approved on May 11, aimed at prioritising medical clinics here.<\/p>\n
\u201cSurrey is one of the fastest-growing cities in Canada, as we know, and with that growth comes the responsibility to ensure our residents have access to the services they need close to home. One of the most urgent challenges facing our community is access to primary care,\u201d Locke said.<\/p>\n
\u201cToo many Surrey residents are still struggling to find a family doctor and while health care delivery is not a municipal responsibility the City can and should do what it can within its authority to help remove barriers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey council OKs establishing volunteer mayor\u2019s health advisory panel Published 10:30 pm Monday, May 11, 2026 Surrey council…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-664426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}