A City Council Committee endorsed Increased Funding for a Family Doctor Recruit Strategy That Has Had Some SuccessEven if some members are asy about it.
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Council’s Community and Protective Services Committee Ultimately Recommended An $ 80,000 Funding Extension to THe Primary-Care Recruitment and Retention Program, Funded Through the City-Funded London Economic Development Corp. (LEDC) Fund reserve.
“Londoners Need This, We Need Family Doctors,” Coun. Sam Trosow Said. “Everything points to the fact that this has been a very successful program Given the Resources we gave them.”
Trosow joined David Ferreira, Peter Cuddy and Hadleigh McALISTER in Voting for the Funding Extension, While Jerry Pribil Voted Against the proposal. The Motion also Called for the Mayor to Advocate for Middlesex County to Pick Up Some of the Tab.
In July 2024, The City Grants $ 50,000 for one Year of the program run by the Middlesex-London Ontario Health Team In Partnership with LEDC, Western University‘S Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Both London HospitalS and the Middlesex Hospital Alliance.
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The program has bushings six doctors to the area, and a report to the committee Said 15 More Are in Talks to Potentially follow follows.
Recruiting Program Costs included Salary, Promotal Materials, Conferences and Travel.
Andrea Loewen, The Team’s Recruitment, Onboarding and Retention Lead, Stéssed to Councilors The Need to Keep the Momentum Going.
“My Hope is to work myyself out of a job.
Committee Members Com Coming The Program’s Work So Far, But Were Wary of Using Local Property Tax Dollars to Deal With A Provincial Responsibility.
Mayor Josh Morgan Argued that fiscal Doctor Recruiting Incentives Such as Those Offered in Niagara and Kingston “Should Frankly Be Illegal” for Putting Cities in Competition with one another.
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The Niagara Region Offers Up to $ 100,000 in Supports Per Doctor, Particularly Those from Overseas.
“(Family Doctor Access is) certainly a significant Issue that we know many Londoners Expect the provincial government, and to a lesser degree, the municipal government to assist (with) where we can,” he said. “It is totally a race to the bottom with (tax dollars) that were never meant to be Spent on incentives for family doctors.”
Doug Ford’s PCS PROMED $ 1.4 Billion in New Funding During the Election Campaign to Connect Two Million More People to Family Doctors and Primary-Care Teams Within Four Years.
About 25 per cent of London and Middlesex County Residents – Or About 100,000 People – Don’t Have a Family Doctor. That’s up from an estimated 65,000 in July 2023.
About 61 London-Area Family Doctors, who care for about 85,000 patients, are expected to withdraw within the next five years, the report Said.
Council Will Decide Whether or not to approve the Program Funding at its April 1 meeting.
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Editor’s Note: This story was updated to more accurately reflect the contributions of each Partner of the Middlesex London Ontario Health Team.
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