... the (province’s first Primary Care Report) document is too long, extolling what personnel have been added, but no information on measured improvements in services and productivity measurements, nor an accounting of the cost of the additions made.
Although the increased number of primary care physicians may potentially increase productivity, there is no evidence of it.
Rather, the opposite has happened, with the reported decrease of access to episodic primary care, due to the shuttering of walk-in clinics, and the continuing high demand for expensive emergency department visits by patients with primary care problems ...
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