News and announcements

BCCOHP Board meeting notice – Thursday, December 4, 2025

The Board of the BC College of Oral Health Professionals typically meets four times per year. To learn more about BCCOHP’s Board, view our Board page. Meeting details are as follows:  Date  Thursday, December 4, 2025 Time  TBANote: timing listed above is approximate and is

November 2025: Transforming oral health care oversight 

A message from BCCOHP’s Registrar and CEO, Chris Hacker  This was a year of acceleration for BCCOHP – one where we moved from planning to doing. The work of bringing multiple legacy systems, cultures and approaches into alignment is no small task; however, it is

2025 Annual Meeting Recap

The 2025 BC College of Oral Health Professionals Annual Meeting was held Monday, October 6 via Zoom. Thank you to everyone who attended.  This meeting reflected on a year of acceleration and momentum as we advanced our work to build a modern, responsive regulator. As

Scheduled dental hygienist online portal outage starts at 2 p.m.

As we shared last week, we are consolidating oral health professional information so that it will be accessible through a single online portal which will launch on Monday, September 22.  To facilitate these updates and enhancements, the dental hygienist online portal on the BCCOHP website

Proposed BCCOHP bylaws consultation 

BCCOHP launched a consultation on Monday, September 8 to gather feedback on a set of proposed bylaws developed to align with the upcoming Health Professions and Occupations Act (HPOA). The HPOA will come into force on April 1, 2026, and all health regulators in BC