A committee working to recruit and retain physicians from Aylesford to Bridgetown is excited by the possibilities after receiving more than $70,000 in provincial funding. | SaltWire
. Organizations could apply for up to $100,000 from the $2-million fund.
The committee, the only one of its kind comprised solely of volunteers in the province, was created in 2021. They have shown prospective physicians the region during recruitment visits but also helped physicians and their families settle in the region after relocating here. The Middleton area had 5,128 people on Nova Scotia’s need a family practice registry in February. It represented an increase of 60 people from January. It also represented 23 per cent of the area’s population. But it is down from the 6,186 people on the registry in November 2021.
“The more successful we were in acquiring funding like that, of course, the more events that we could do,” Hyslop said.
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