{"id":442817,"date":"2026-01-30T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/442817\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:45:08","slug":"quebec-private-doctors-challenge-law-forcing-5-years-of-public-system-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/442817\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec private doctors challenge law forcing 5 years of public system work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec&#8217;s private doctors&#8217; federation is mounting a legal challenge against a law that requires all new doctors to practise in the province&#8217;s public system for five years.<\/p>\n<p>The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des m\u00e9decins de pratique priv\u00e9e du Qu\u00e9bec is asking the Superior Court for a stay on the measure, which they describe as unjustified and discriminatory.<\/p>\n<p>They are also asking the court to invalidate some provisions of the provincial law that came into effect in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The law was tabled in order to address the growing number of doctors who were leaving the public system to practise privately.<\/p>\n<p>It imposes hefty fines on any doctors who enter the private sector or move outside the province within the first five years of their careers.<\/p>\n<p>The private doctors&#8217; group says the law restricts patients&#8217; access to timely care and can interrupt their ongoing therapeutic relationships with private providers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-442817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}