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‘Feeling hopeful for the future of family medicine’: New payment model brings hundreds of family doctors to B.C.: DixIn the one year since B.C.’s new payment model for family doctors has been implemented, the Ministry of Health says hundreds of doctors have started practicing in the province, but there is still more work to be done.
Additionally, the province says the expansion of the Health Connect Registry is now complete, which will help connect unattached patients to health providers. Up to Feb. 7, over 50,000 people have been attached to a family doctor through this program, with another 275,000 signed up and waiting to be attached, according to the ministry.
Even prior to the new payment model, across Vancouver Island attachment to general practitioners has improved, according to data from the 2020/2021 fiscal year.published by the BC Centre for Disease Control shows that every community on Vancouver Island saw an increase in the number of patients connected to general practitioners between 2019 and 2021.
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