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Health Ministry says 160 new doctors have been added thanks to new payment model

March 13, 2023

More than half of BC's full-time family physicians have switched to the new fee structure, billed as a way to increase people's access to a family doctor and stop those in family practice from fleeing a system that was burning them out. “I think we’ve built an attractive model so that patients will get family physicians in due time,” says Doctors of BC President Dr Josh Greggain.