A suburban British Columbia city is looking to ease its shortage of family doctors by hiring physicians and putting them on the community payroll. The Victoria-area city of Colwood launched a first-in-Canada pilot project to recruit family doctors who will work out of a city-leased medical clinic and be paid as community employees, receiving full medical benefits, vacation and a pension, chief administrative officer Robert Earl said Wednesday.

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Vancouver Island city hires its 1st municipally employed family doctor

The suburban city of Colwood, B.C., on Vancouver Island, says it has hired its first family doctor in a new approach to easing the community's shortage of physicians.

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The City of Colwood is directly hiring family physicians under a new pilot project that could connect thousands of residents with primary care.

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B.C. city’s solution to family doctor shortage: Hire its own physicians

The number of new family doctors providing care in Canada has slowed over the past decade, according to a new report.
The annual report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), examines trends among health-care professionals offering primary care services.
The growth of doctors entering the field has slowed from 3 percent between 2015 and 2017 to one percent between 2021 and 2023, the report released Dec. 17 found. The drop in …

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Number of Family Doctors in Canada on Decline Over Last 10 Years

The city's new medical clinic is set to open in 2025

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Colwood hires first doctor for new municipal-run medical clinic

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The City of Colwood has taken another step toward opening a municipally run clinic that will be the first of its kind in Canada with the hiring of a new family doctor. The city voted to open the clinic, located at Colwood Commons in Royal Bay, in September as part of a pilot project aimed at connecting every Colwood resident with a family physician. After approving the project, the search was on to hire eight family doctors and on Wednesday, the…

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New city-run clinic in Colwood has hired its first family doctor

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The measures are backed by the biggest boost to GP funding in years, an extra £889m on top of the existing budget for general practice

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When you learned the provincial government had worked out a new compensation agreement with Alberta’s doctors, did you say to yourself “That’s good. We need to keep our family docs in Alberta and attract even more from elsewhere”?

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