Concern expressed about whether private clinics would lure more doctors and nurses away from hospitals
Ontario's new plan to reduce the hospital surgery backlog by allowing surgeries to take place in private clinics is not the best solution to the problem according to some agencies involved in health care.
"How can increasing capacity in other centres not impact on the already stretched health human resources and not deplete hospital, long-term care, and community services of their nurses? Staff have to come from somewhere," said a news release from RNAO political action executive network officer Maria Casas of Sudbury.
"Make no mistake, pushing people desperate for surgeries to for-profit clinics will mean people paying for care with their credit cards. It will mean health care workers pulled out of hospitals," said NDP Health critic France Gélinas, who is also the MPP for Nickel Belt. The concern of staffing was also shared by Dr. David Jacobs, the president of the Ontario Association of Radiologists.
"As a surgeon, I feel any measure that will allow for more surgeries and cut wait times should be considered," he said.
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