Romano ‘cautiously optimistic’ about plan for de-rostered Group Health patients

Sault MPP Ross Romano says he and a recently formed task force are working to address the healthcare needs of more than 10,000 Group Health Centre patients who face being de-rostered and left without access to a family doctor effective May 31, 2024.“The main fundamental priority in the short term is to have something in place before May 31st of this year to prevent those 10,176 patients from losing access to primary care.

GHC wants $1.6 million of that amount to go toward a program that would enable five nurses to gain certification as nurse practitioners. “I just got their letter yesterday after it was made public and I have a protocol in my office. Anybody who wants to have a meeting with me, I always will meet with that person. We have a process that we follow in the office to get a sense of how to schedule that meeting,” Romano said. “I’m certainly very happy to meet with the group and provide them with the information that I believe all of the public deserves to know.

The MPP said there are mechanisms already in place to speed up licensing of foreign-trained doctors to practice medicine in Ontario.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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