90 days? That's so quick. I lived in my current city without a doctor for nearly a decade. Now I have an nurse practitioner and any appointment I want to make with them is always 6 months out.

This shit isn't good enough.

In Ontario, the average wait time for the thousands of prospective patients on the province’s list looking to be connected to a family doctor is, according to the government, around 90 days.

Wow, so I must be much younger than I think, because it's been eight fucking years since I've had a GP, in a city (not a town, a city) with no walk-in clinics and no NPs taking patients.

This was terrible under McGuinty & Wynne, and Ford's response was basically "hold my (buck a) beer!"

I was on a wait-list. Then I got a doc. It was quicker than NOT having a wait-list, which seems to be the question.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In Ontario, the average wait time for the thousands of prospective patients on the province's list looking to be connected to a family doctor is, according to the government, around 90 days.

"In some places, we have patients who've been on the list for years," says Dr. Mike Green, president of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and a Kingston, Ont.-based doctor.

"In Quebec, the main entry point [to be] attached to a family physician is through the centralized waiting list," she said.

Some of her research into these lists found that when the centralized wait-lists were coupled with financial incentives in Quebec for doctors, it increased enrolment of new patients.

Dr. Tara Kiran, a family physician at St. Michael's Hospital, and the Fidani chair in improvement and innovation at the University of Toronto, said these lists need to be accessible to the vulnerable, along with those new to Canada who may not speak the language.

At one point in time, there were actually financial incentives for doctors to take on particularly vulnerable patients from HCC, she said.

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Not just ON

Like every title that asks a question the answer is: NO.