Family doctors being tasked with additional shifts in hospital, acute and primary care clinic to make up for shortages
Despite the decision of the Nechako Medical Clinic group of doctors to dissolve the corporation that staffs the Prince George Acute and Primary Care Centre at Parkwood Mall, Adrian Dix, who was health minister for the NDP government, and the Northern Health Authority have provided reassurances the clinic will stay open.
But according to longtime BC Liberal/United MLA Coralee Oakes, currently running as an independent in Prince George-North Cariboo, the one-size-fits-all approach of the LFP model is not working in northern BC hospitals that are suffering with doctor shortages that have forced the overnight closures of emergency wards.
“The Longitudinal Family Physician payment model, while it works in the Lower Mainland, from what I’ve heard from doctors, it’s not working in rural northern communities and we need to look at it before we lose any more doctors,” said Oakes. “They have to cover ER, they have to cover regular rounds at the hospital and then they’re also required to cover urgent and primary care and they just can’t do it anymore,” Oakes said.
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