321 days on average before you get a doctor

Patrick Bellerose

Tuesday, 13 march 2018, 00:00

UPDATE
Tuesday, 13 march 2018, 00:00

Look at this article

The average waiting times at the Atm of access to a family doctor are lying for a year, learned The Newspaper.

For patient priority, such as those suffering from a chronic disease, the average waiting time in Quebec has increased from 219 days in January 2017 285 days last December, according to data from the ministry of Health and social Services.

Quebecers are in better health, they had to wait for 224 days at the beginning of the year 2017, compared with 321 days to the end of the year.

Created in April 2016, the GAMF allows Quebecers to register on a waiting list line, on which the family doctors choose the patients they want to take care of. Doctors may still register a patient without going through the GAMF.

According to a website of the RAMQ, the ” waiting period is estimated by taking into account the availability of doctors and the number of entries in your region “.

On a one-year period, the increase in delay is observed in the vast majority of the regions of Quebec.

The CIUSSS of the North-of-the-Island-of-Montreal, the wait time for a vulnerable person is gone from 194 to 315 days. The same is true for patients in non-priority : the time is now 366 days, as he was only 225 days in January 2017.

In the National Capital, the time limits are also drawn from 229 to 294 days for vulnerable clients and 234 and 331 days for the patients in better health.

The rules were changed

Originally, the creation of the GAMF were to register 85 % of Quebec to a family doctor before the end of the year 2017. In October, when it became evident that Quebec would its target, the minister of Health, Gaétan Barrette, has changed the rules to allow general practitioners to pre-register patients, without an initial consultation.

The large inscription

In the words of the spokesperson of the ministry of Health and social Services, Noémie Vanheuverzwijn, the effects of this “Great inscription” should ” be felt as early as this winter and, therefore, cancel the slight increase in registration deadlines still observed to December 31, 2017 “.

She points out that 412 000 people registered with a family physician between December 2016 and December 2017.

Since the arrival in power of the government Couillard in 2014, a million Quebecers have access to a family doctor, also argued the minister Barrette last December.

AVERAGE NUMBER OF DAYS to WAIT

Average time in January 2017

Average time in December 2017

SAGUENAY–LAC-SAINT-JEAN

• PRIORITY : 206
• PRIORITY : 321
• NON-PRIORITY : 204
• NON-PRIORITY : 337

MAURICIE-CENTRE-DU-QUÉBEC

• PRIORITY : 222
• PRIORITY : 221
• NON-PRIORITY : 228
• NON-PRIORITY : 287

LANAUDIÈRE

• PRIORITY : 191
• PRIORITY : 259
• NON-PRIORITY : 223
• NON-CORE : 288

LAURENTIDES

• PRIORITY : 223
• PRIORITY : 269
• NON-PRIORITY : 232
• NON-PRIORITY : 346

CENTER-WEST-OF-The-ISLAND-OF-MONTREAL

• PRIORITY : 206
• PRIORITY : 274
• NON-PRIORITY : 193
• NON-PRIORITY : 271

WEST-OF-The-ISLAND-OF-MONTREAL

• PRIORITY : 216
• PRIORITY : 292
• NON-PRIORITY : 209
• NON-PRIORITY : 336

CAPITALE-NATIONALE

• PRIORITY : 229
• PRIORITY : 294
• NON-PRIORITY : 234
• NON-PRIORITY : 331

CENTRE-SOUTH-ISLAND-OF-MONTREAL

• PRIORITY : 195
• PRIORITY : 213
• NON-PRIORITY : 219
• NON-PRIORITY : 316

NORTH-OF-The-ISLAND-OF-MONTREAL

• PRIORITY : 194
• PRIORITY : 315
• NON-PRIORITY : 225
• NON-PRIORITY : 366

IS-OF-The-ISLAND-OF-MONTREAL

• PRIORITY : 207
• PRIORITY : 295
• NON-PRIORITY : 219
• NON-PRIORITY : 344

ESTRIE

• PRIORITY : 225
• PRIORITY : 371
• NON-PRIORITY : 223
• NON-PRIORITY : 333

Source : MSSS