Trying to solve the ‘bottleneck’ of accepting new patients for Ontario family doctors

Trying to solve the ‘bottleneck’ of accepting new patients for Ontario family doctors

A medical clinic looking to take on thousands of new patients is working to improve its rostering process after people camped out overnight and hundreds lined up, desperate to find a primary care physician. But without systemic changes, officials at the Kingston, Ont., clinic say there will likely be more lineups. “Rostering just means a … Read more

‘Health care in this province sucks’: Hundreds wait for chance to get doctor in Kingston, Ont.

‘Health care in this province sucks’: Hundreds wait for chance to get doctor in Kingston, Ont.

Hundreds of people lined up in the cold and rain outside a Kingston health clinic for hours Wednesday morning, desperate to find a doctor. It marked the third day in a row a line stretched for blocks outside CDK Family Medicine and Walk-In Clinic on Sutherland Drive after the clinic announced it would be accepting … Read more