Institut national d\u2019excellence en sant\u00e9 et services sociaux<\/a> (INESSS) that emphasized that patients who made four or more emergency room visits in Quebec in 2018\u20132019 accounted for nine per cent of all patients and 29 per cent of total visits.<\/p>\n\u201cThe Quebec health care system, like those of other Canadian provinces, is based on a universal access system, which allows all eligible individuals to access the services they need, regardless of their medical history, chronic illnesses, or pre-existing conditions,\u201d the ministry concluded.<\/p>\n
For its part, the RAMQ simply noted that it \u201cdoes not have information regarding the reason why a person makes an appointment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe RAMQ\u2019s role is to enforce the terms of the compensation agreement signed between the medical federations (in this case, the [Federation of General Practitioners of Quebec] FMOQ) and the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS),\u201d it told CTV News.<\/p>\n
Montreal-area couple tries for weeks to get doctor\u2019s appointment, waits nearly two months A couple was forced to wait nearly two months for a doctor’s appointment so the 77-year-old Montreal man could return to work. <\/p>\n
The data also showed that 11,586 people saw a doctor between 51 and 100 times in 2024, while 1,611 Quebecers had 100 or more appointments.<\/p>\n
Across the other provinces, B.C. noted 14,497 patients who visited a doctor between 51 and 100 times; Alberta had 25,767, Saskatchewan had 31, and Manitoba had 560.<\/p>\n
When it came to more than 100 appointments per person, B.C. recorded 241 patients, Alberta had 9,331, Saskatchewan had one, and Manitoba had 40.<\/p>\n
Access to care<\/p>\n
The numbers come amid growing cries for Quebec to fix its public health care system, with a 2025 study by the Institut de la statistique du Qu\u00e9bec (ISQ) showing that in 2019, 82 per cent of the population was registered with a single family doctor.<\/p>\n
That number steadily declined until it was 72 per cent in 2024.<\/p>\n
At the time, the ISQ pointed to several reasons for the decline, such as retirements and newer doctors choosing to take on fewer patients.<\/p>\n
Currently, about 1.5 million Quebecers do not have a family doctor.<\/p>\n
Access to a general practitioner for every Quebecer was one of the many promises made by the Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec (CAQ) government when it was first elected in 2018.<\/p>\n
Montreal doctor wants every child to have a pediatrician Dr. Matthew Donlan has launched Care for Every Kid initiative and hopes it can be introduced province-wide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Quebecer recorded 362 appointments with a family doctor in 2024 \u2014 the most in the entire country,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[712,49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-644446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644446","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=644446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}