The province says the funding should reduce pressure on emergency rooms while supporting clinics to increase patient access on evenings, weekends and holidays
The Saskatchewan government says it plans to increase compensation for doctors offering after-hours care to help people get access to physicians.
Like the rest of the country, Saskatchewan’s health-care system is short-staffed and under strain, and people are struggling to find doctors who are accepting new patients. “We have heard and are responding to fee-for-service family physicians’ concerns,” Merriman said in the news release Friday.
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