Ontario doctors applaud primary care reform proposals
Date: Dec. 22, 1999
Time: 3:07 pm
The Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons (OCFP) has thrown its support behind the provincial Health Services Restructuring Commission's plan to reform primary care in the province.
"We're pleased that the HSRC has listened to what family doctors have said," said Jan Kasperski, the OCFP's executive director. "For the most part we're supportive of what's been proposed because it is consistent with what family doctors have said."
The HSRC proposal would create group practices and networks, enroll patients with family physicians and promote collaboration between family doctors and nurse practitioners. The college added that while doctors should be the keeper of the patient's health record and the coordinator of care throughout the health care system, the roles of doctors and nurses need to be defined further.
"Family medicine is in crisis in Ontario and the emergency room problem in Toronto is ample evidence that Ontario doesn't have the right family medicine system in place to help people," said Kasperski. "We need to make the HSRC's proposals a reality right now to alleviate the crisis."
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