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Sandy Hermiston, P.E.I.’s ombudsperson, said in an interview at her office on March 19 that her office was contacted by a concerned citizen recently who felt family doctors or nurse practitioners were taking on new patients who had not been on the registry as long as others in the same community.Conflicts arise at P.E.I. committee meeting on shoreline protections
"They have the right to decide how they do that so they might have their own waiting list … or they might have to take patients whose family members do not have care. They might take those on because then they’re providing care to a whole family and that makes a lot of sense.” “The registry is well known to all the practices so any family physicians or medical homes that are finding capacity know to call the registry," O'Connor said.Bookmark our website and support our journalism:Everton McLean, senior communications officer with Health P.E.I., said doctors will also take patients on the registry off for a period of time who are in need of seeing a specialist.
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