The Government of Quebec has reached an agreement with the Federation of General Practitioners of Quebec (FMOQ) to give Quebecers easier access to front-line care.
In a press release published Sunday afternoon, Quebec indicates that this agreement will allow patients registered with a family doctor to have access to it, or to another doctor in the group, within 36 or 72 hours, depending on their clinical situation. .
For people who are not registered with a family doctor, the Guichet d’accès à la première ligne platform, which is under development, will be available to them to make an appointment to consult the right healthcare professional. health within a “reasonable” time.
In addition, the agreement provides that “hundreds of thousands of patients” from the Family Doctor Access Window will be progressively enrolled in a group of doctors who practice on the front line by March 31, 2023, starting with the most vulnerable customers.
The agreement in principle will cost taxpayers nothing more, since it draws its funding from the envelope already available in the 2015-2023 Framework Agreement.
FMOQ members will have to ratify this agreement, which will be presented to them in detail in the coming weeks. An advisory vote will take place at the end of May, but the federation indicates that it is planned “to move forward with many innovative measures” that it has been proposing for several months.
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