An Independent MHA is crying foul over comments made by the province’s health minister about collaborative care clinics.
On the April 14 edition of VOCM Openline with Paddy Daly, Minister John Haggie addressed concerns surrounding doctors leaving their practice to work at the clinics, saying no physician has left their practice to staff the new clinics, and they are all “new to the system.”
However, Mount Pearl-Southlands MHA Paul Lane is hearing a different story from constituents
He says he’s been notified of a family doctor in Mount Pearl who is shutting down their practice and joining a clinic. The problem, however, is that the doctor either won’t or can’t take her patients with her.
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Lane says Minister Haggie’s comments are not providing the full scope of the situation.
What Haggie says may technically be true, says Lane, in that it may only be new doctors working there at the moment, but that doesn’t take into account those that are in the process of shutting down with plans to join the clinics. Lane says this is creating a whole new problem in that those who already have a family doctor are losing them to the clinics.
