Alberta Doctors News Today

The funding provided is based on the number of patients on a physician's panel. The minimum number of continual patients required to receive payments is 500.

An Alberta doctor who has been volunteering in Rafah for the past week has been told to leave because the situation is too dangerous.

Physicians part of the Alternative Relationship Plan received a memo outlining claims received over December won't be processed on time due to a scheduled holiday break.

The new president of the Alberta Medical Association says doctors are worried about the ongoing crisis in family medicine and the strain on hospitals due to staffing challenges.

Over the past three years, there has been a 78 per cent drop in doctors in Alberta accepting new patients and Albertans are concerned about the lack of accessiblity to health care.

Over the past three years, there has been a 78 per cent drop in doctors in Alberta accepting new patients and Albertans are concerned about the lack of accessiblity to health care.

Alberta-based advocacy organization Friends of Medicare says the province needs to put a stop to a Calgary clinic planning to charge annual fees for faster access to a physician.

'You can get them to read notes and extract information from them extremely well. Faster than I can read it, it can read it and pull the information out that I'm interested in.'

Doctors in High River, south of Calgary, say the town has lost a quarter of its complement of physicians over the last three years due to retirement, relocation and burnout.

After the second round of matching, there are still 22 unfilled family medicine spots in the province.