Health Minister Adrian Dix’s new plan to fix the family doctor system is as expensive as it is ambitious.
It promises a new pay model for physicians, a new waitlist registry for patients and enhanced coordination between the many branches of the unwieldy public health-care system – all at a cost of at least $708 million over the next three years.
But how are British Columbians left to judge whether the ambitious plan is working, if not for an increase in actual doctors taking on actual patients? The government’s hope is that the new pay model, which starts in February, will encourage freshly graduating doctors to choose family medicine, lure back some physicians who chose to work in hospitals and convince other practitioners who were thinking of closing their clinics to instead keep them open.
The new model will dovetail with previously announced signing bonuses for new family physicians, additional training seats, a planned new medical school and a push to speed up international accreditation opportunities for doctors trained overseas. Politically, the launch of the new deal with doctors went about as well as could have been hoped for the NDP government. Dix has bought incoming premier David Eby some time on the health-care file, and reduced the temperature of what has been a full-blown political crisis the past few months.
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