Les Leyne: Latest attack on doctor crisis might make more progress than previous efforts
If issuing news releases could fix the shortage of family doctors in B.C., the crisis would be a distant memory by now.
There’s also been a long list of high-concept announcements about “transforming primary care.” But many of the announcements just stopped problems in specific communities from getting worse, which isn’t the same as making the overall situation better. Up until three years ago, the multibillion-dollar master agreement that sets the terms for doctors’ employment was by and large renewed every few years according to a fee-for-service template.
This time around, the new physicians’ master agreement, which puts an additional $708 million into the already-sizeable compensation pot, takes second billing to a complete revamp of the payment mechanisms. Officials said a full-time family doctor collected about $250,000 last year just in fee-for-service payments. While a direct comparison isn’t available, the new model would see a typical GP gross almost $400,000 a year. There were the usual assurances that it will attract new family doctors and ease the attrition rate of existing ones.
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