The province's three-year plan includes funding for 200 new doctors to work in the team-based model and for 200 additional nurse practitioners at the cost of $181 million to hire the new doctors and $115 million for the nurse practitioners. The government plans to establish team-based primary care networks in 70% of B.C. communities. The plan includes opening 10 urgent primary-care centres for people without family doctors. They’ll open on weekends and after hours, and work to take the pressure off emergency departments. The plan also includes expanding health and social service options at community health centres to integrate them into local primary care team networks. There are 780,000 people without a family doctor in B.C.
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