B.C. doctors want need for sick notes for short-term illnesses eliminated

Family doctors are urging the B.C. authorities to instrumentality contiguous enactment to present connected its level commitments present that the furniture is successful spot and Josie Osborne has been appointed arsenic the caller wellness minister.

The BC College of Family Physicians would similar to spot the request for sick notes eliminated for short-duration illnesses.

They said caller survey information showed that astir 30 per cent of a household physician’s clip has been spent connected administrative tasks, including sick notes, and that Premier David Eby has promised to prohibition employers from mandating a sick note.

“We’re going to bash it arsenic rapidly arsenic we can,” Osborne said, “but we’re going to bash it right. So we’ll enactment with doctors, with Doctors of BC, connected processing options.

“Right now, I don’t cognize if that’s going to necessitate legislative alteration oregon not but successful owed people we surely volition cognize and we’ll get that successful spot arsenic soon arsenic we can.”

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Dr. Jennifer Lush, household doc and committee subordinate of the BC College of Family Physicians said they are asking Osborne to beryllium down with household physicians astatine the earliest imaginable opportunity.

Osborne said she looks guardant to sitting down with them.

Data provided by the assemblage shows that 40 per cent of household physicians successful B.C. program to discontinue oregon propulsion backmost their objective duties successful the adjacent 3 to 5 years.

Osborne said the Health Connect registry is inactive the cardinal to making definite everyone successful the state is connected with capable wellness care.

She said since 2018, much than 570,000 radical person been attached to a household doc oregon caregiver practitioner.