Too many Ontario residents still relying on 'piecemeal' primary care at walk-in clinics and emergency rooms said Sudbury nurse practitioner
The woman who heads up the Sudbury District Nurse Practitioner Clinics told a Queen's Park standing committee Monday that more provincial funding directed to nurse practitioner clinics could help address the problem of too many patients and not enough doctors in Ontario.
Clement said primary health care is at the heart of any well-functioning and sustainable health-care system that will lead to longer and healthier lives for the residents. She said the success of Ontario's 25 existing PLCs have prompted more than a dozen other communities across Ontario to begin lobbying to have practitioner clinics set up in their towns.
She recommended that the province take steps to help PLCs deal with the human resources crisis in health care. "We have become very adept at managing our budgets to ensure we don't run a deficit," Clement told the committee.
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