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Ontario is expanding its model of creating family health teams, in a move away from encouraging doctors to set up solo practices.
The health teams include a doctor, a nurse practitioner and a range of other health-care professionals, such as dietitians. The goal is to provide more comprehensive care at the primary level.
Since 2005, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has created 150 teams and is now reviewing applications for up to 50 more.
Dr. Tim Zmijowskyj, a family doctor in Sudbury, would like to see even more health teams created, with the goal of encouraging medical graduates to see the teams as a viable career choice.
"Because [the teams] don't exist currently, many of those graduates will go on to do specialized family medicine training and work in emergency departments, in hospitals and whatnot. But not in, necessarily, primary-care practices," said Zmijowskyj.
Zmijowskyj said more family health teams would reduce the workload at hospitals.
The province hopes to expand to 200 family health teams by the fall, and create more of them as funding becomes available.
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