Quebec floated plan to shift doctors to most vulnerable. Are they reconsidering? – GLOBAL

October 17, 2024

Quebec’s health minister is attempting to reassure the public they won’t lose their family doctors, following a controversial proposal suggesting the redistribution of physicians from healthy patients to the most vulnerable populations.

Minister of Health and Social Services Christian Dubé took to X in French on Thursday letting Quebecers know they will keep their family doctors following pushback from the report. He stated the province is taking all measures to improve access and streamline front-line care, but did not clarify whether the proposed plan was entirely off the table.

“Quebecers who have a family doctor will keep them. We want to reassure the population. Just as we committed to in our Health plan, our goal is clear: we are taking all measures to facilitate access and simplify the organization of front-line care, and this, for all Quebecers,” he said in French.

Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/10811919/famil-doctors-quebec-healthy-vulnerable-patients/

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