Alberta’s NDP will make sure the one million Albertans who need a family doctor, get a family doctor.
Today, bad UCP decisions have chased doctors out of Alberta, with no doctors taking new patients in Lethbridge, Red Deer, and the Bow Valley. Recent data shows that more than 650,000 Albertans have no family doctor, and that number is rising.
Physicians and health professionals are counting on Alberta’s leaders to reimagine family health care, so doctors spend less time doing paperwork and more time caring for you.
Alberta’s NDP is standing with family doctors to put forward a new plan to transform family medicine in this province. With Rachel Notley as Premier, we will bring forward an innovative plan for primary care that we call Family Health Teams.
Family Health Teams mean you have access to a doctor who works closely with other professionals like nurse practitioners, Registered and Licensed Practical Nurses, mental health therapists, pharmacists, social workers, dietitians, community paramedics, community health navigators, physiotherapists, midwives, speech language therapists, and more.
This will include expanding current clinics and establishing new clinics in high-demand areas so more Albertans have access to modern, innovative primary care.
Our commitment to integrated team-based care delivered in Family Health Clinics will mean that within ten years, up to one million more Albertans will have access to a doctor within a day or two as part of family health clinics.
The Alberta NDP Family Care Teams Plan will ensure:
- Better care and health outcomes for Albertans.
- Care closer to home.
- Access to a family doctor within a day or two.
- Great places to work and care for patients.
- Doctors who have time to focus more on medical care and less on administration.
- Decreased pressure on Emergency Rooms, EMS, and hospitals and lower costs for the acute care system over time.
For Albertans, our Family Health Teams plan means less waiting, less time running around for referrals, and less repeating your story to one new person after another.
It means ONE location to get all your family health concerns looked after.
Now, not later.
While Danilelle Smith and the UCP find new ways to make you pay to see your doctor, our team is focused on what really matters:
More doctors and better health care, where and when it’s needed.
For you. Your parents. And your kids.