B.C. primary care clinics chronically understaffed: Ministry of Health

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B.C. Liberal health critic Shirley Bond accused Health Minister Adrian Dix of \u0022dodging questions about the lack of family doctors in B.C.\u0022

The revelations come as hundreds of people gathered Thursday on the lawn of the Legislature demanding government action on the family doctor shortage.

Richmond’s primary care network has been open for three years and government funding allowed for 32 full-time physicians. It currently has only one doctor. The North Shore primary care network has been operating for two years and has just three physicians of the 17.5 doctors approved. Premier John Horgan acknowledged the urgent primary care clinics are short-staffed, which is why on Thursday morning he spoke to federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos about increasing Ottawa’s health transfers to the provinces.

In question period, Dix defended the primary care model saying the government has added 59 primary care networks, which have attached 142,000 people to either a physician or nurse practitioner.

 

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