Health Minister Christian Dubé announced that he is looking into a bill that would make new doctors trained in Quebec temporarily stay out of the private system.
The Quebec government wants to compel new doctors who studied and trained in the province to work in the public system for the first few years of their career.
Health Minister Christian Dubé announced Sunday evening that he is looking into tabling a bill that would make recent graduates who are both general practitioners and specialists temporarily stay out of the private system. The goal of tabling such proposed legislation is to “improve access and strengthen” the public health network, according to Dubé. Few details were provided about the bill, including how long a new doctor would be expected to work in the public system.“While too many Quebecers are still waiting to be taken care of, too many physicians decide, early in their careers, to leave the Quebec public network,” Dubé said in a statement.
The Health Ministry says there are two issues: there is an upward trend in physicians heading to the private sector and many others simply leave Quebec. Both of these issues are prevalent among new doctors, according to the government. The province notes that 775 of the 22,479 doctors in Quebec work exclusively in the private sector, an increase of 70 per cent since 2020.
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