One in four Ontario family doctors is over 60 years of age — making the doctor shortage even more urgent than it looks at the moment. Our municipality can help…
If you, like me, spent the last several weeks worried about being able to access emergency services due to the severe shortages in our health-care system, please read on. The last four months of 2022 will be remembered as the time when emergency rooms closed across Ontario, nurses quit the profession in large numbers and paramedics waited up to six hours to offload patients. Over 1.5 million Ontarians do not have a family physician, adding additional stress to emergency services.
Examples of desperation include one couple in B.C. that took out an ad in the newspaper looking for a doctor to refill prescriptions for an ongoing chronic condition. There have been news reports of patients driving several hours to see a family doctor they had many years ago in a city in which they no longer live. All of these patchwork “solutions” do nothing to relieve the ongoing stress on nurses, the backlog of hospital surgeries, or the ongoing issues in long-term care.
The City of Ottawa needs to have a family doctor recruitment and retention plan. Many Ontario municipalities have gone ahead, often with unanimous support from their councils, and there are templates and toolkits already in place as to how this can be set up.
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