Quebec reaches tentative deal with family doctors
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An agreement has finally been reached between Quebec and family doctors on the primary care access window, the Guichet d'acces a la premiere ligne (GAP).
An agreement has finally been reached between Quebec and family doctors on the primary care access window, the Guichet d'accès à la première ligne (GAP).
Health Minister Christian Dubé wrote on X late Thursday afternoon that the progress made with the "gateway agreement for the GAP" will make it possible to preserve "certain important principles," notably collective registration.
For her part, Treasury Board President Sonia LeBel wrote on the social network that the agreement will make it possible to maintain care for more than 900,000 patients.
"The work is not finished: now we will devote our energy to negotiating the renewal of the framework agreement," she said.
Dubé addressed the Montreal Chamber of Commerce at noon on Thursday, talking in particular about the progress made in health care and the challenges he intends to address with the new Santé Québec agency.
In a press scrum, he stated that negotiations seemed to have broken the deadlock in recent days.
"From what I understood yesterday from our negotiators, there has been significant progress … We agreed that it would take a response today," the minister said. The president of the Fédération des médecins omnipraticiens du Québec (FMOQ), Dr. Marc-André Amyot, acknowledged that discussions were going well.
