The N.S. government’s looking for any way to get more people access to care. With physician assistants (PAs) working in emergency care and orthopedics and a new training program in development at Dalhousie University, the health authority is hoping to introduce more of these professionals in primary care settings. After years of resistance to introducing the role in the province, there are plans to get them working in other EDs and primary-care clinics. Nova Scotia Health's medical director of innovation experienced the benefits of a PA and says the response from doctors working in primary care clinics (where there are plans to place PAs) was overwhelming. The province launched a pilot program in 2019, adding three PAs to the orthopedic surgery division at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax.
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May 18, 2023