Dr. Paul Parks says the system-wide strain is exacerbated by Premier Danielle Smith’s effort to tear apart Alberta Health Services and replace it with four new organizations
Adriana LaGrange, Alberta minister of health, speaks about health-care reforms as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith looks on during a news conference in Edmonton on Nov. 8, 2023.Discussions over how to fund family medicine and stabilize acute care in Alberta have failed to produce deals because the provincial government ignored doctors’ concerns over the state of the crumbling health care system, according to the outgoing president of the Alberta Medical Association.
The government and the AMA agreed that creating a new funding model for family medicine and stabilizing acute care were key priorities, Dr. Parks said. But, who secured office in part because of her distrust of medical expertise tied to COVID-19, had a third goal: to break up AHS.“They are spending an inordinate amount of their energy disintegrating the system, adding chaos and making it harder for us to do our job,” he said.
“We knew from the start that developing a new physician compensation model would be a complex and time-consuming process,” she said in the statement. “This work was never about quick fixes, and there is still a little more work to be done.”
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