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Feb 16, 2024 · The Ontario Medical Association is sounding the alarm about the increasing number of family physicians leaving practice. Some 2.3 million Ontarians are currently without a family doctor....
May 22, 2024 · Family medicine is experiencing burnout on an unprecedented scale, while patients in small towns line up for hours if a new clinic opens, just in hopes of getting in. Two million Ontarians are currently without a family doctor and this is expected to double in the next 5-10 years.
Feb 21, 2024 · At a panel discussion held by the Ontario Medical Association, doctors cited administrative burdens and declining pay and called for immediate reforms.
- Doctors Burdened by Administrative Work
- Northern Ontario Seeking Physicians
- Er Numbers Have Increased, Says Administrator
Burnout was identified in the OMA survey as one of the top issues facing the health-care system, as well as in a survey released Wednesday by the Ontario College of Family Physicians. In addition to the 2.2 million Ontarians without a family doctor right now, another 1.7 million Ontarians have a family doctor who is aged 65 or older. Family doctors...
A shortage of family doctors is felt particularly acutely in rural northern Ontario. Dr. Sarah Newberry, assistant dean of physician workforce strategy at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, said primary care doctors in those communities are often also the emergency department doctors and the hospital inpatient doctors, such as in Marathon, On...
Melanie Goulet, recruitment co-ordinator for health professionals at Notre-Dame Hospital in Hearst, Ont., said in a recent interview that as of July 1, about 4,000 people in the community of 5,000 will be without a family doctor. Losing just one doctor puts additional pressures on the ER and makes it harder to fill those physician shifts, she said....
May 30, 2023 · Without quick action, Ontario could see an exodus of family doctors closing their clinics or reducing their hours, leaving fewer patients with access to the kind of comprehensive primary care that Ontarians value, need and deserve.
Oct 25, 2023 · The Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP) revealed in its survey that the province could see a mass exodus of family doctors leaving their clinics – or reducing their hours – with about 65...
Feb 19, 2024 · Some member doctors of the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) are calling on the Ontario government to step up with better funding and better working conditions to stem the flow of physicians who are quitting their jobs and leaving family practice.
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