(Quebec) The Legault government is continuing to develop its front-line access counters for the orphan population (GAP), which allow orphan patients to call a telephone number to access the health network. All Quebecers will have access to it by spring 2022, indicates Quebec.
Access counters allow people who do not have a family doctor to have access to primary care, in particular through tele-care and increased financial support for family medicine groups (FMGs) who “Carry out visits to patients who are not registered with a family doctor, and this, through their service offer”.
“All Quebecers must have equitable access to first-line services, and we are putting in place solutions to change things in a sustainable way, with the collaboration of family medicine groups (FMGs) and our network teams”, a Health Minister Christian Dubé said in a press release Monday.
Two new GAPs will be created in Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean and in Montérégie. Quebec is moving forward because of the “positive results observed” with its pilot project in Bas-Saint-Laurent. Over the past year, this GAP has received 8900 calls: half were referred “to a medical appointment” in a participating clinic, and the other half were referred to “other services” in the health network. .