Roughly 88,300 Nova Scotians are on the province's primary care wait-list, which hit a new record high April 1. The number of people waiting for a family doctor or nurse practitioner is up about three per cent from the month before.
When Evelyn Hornbeck and her husband received notice last fall that their family doctor would be retiring without a replacement, they were immediately stressed.
Nova Scotia's wait-list grew most in the central health zone, which includes the Halifax area, where there are more than 30,000 people waiting. That number is up by 2,000 people or about seven per cent from the month before. "It has been consistently going up for a few years and based on both immigration to the province and movement within the province, we anticipate to go up for a little bit longer," he said in an interview Friday.
So far, virtual appointments have been made available to all residents in the northern and western health zones who don't have primary care. Virtual care is gradually opening to those in the central and eastern zones, with first access going to those who have been on the wait-list the longest.
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