Mackenzie May Have New Docs Soon

Thursday, July 19, 2007 03:56 AM

Mackenzie may soon be welcoming two new physicians from the UK.

Northern Health has been trying to recruit two new physicians to help the two doctors who are currently living and working in Mackenzie.

So far, locum physicians have been helping carry the workload, and those same locums are being approached by Northern Health and being reminded about the opportunities in Mackenzie.

Northern Health says its been persuing all sorts of avenues to find some new physicians for the community including: advertising campaigns, meeting with new graduate physicians and making Mackenzie available for the Family Physicians for B.C. program that will help fund a group of doctors who set up practice in a rural community.,

Right now, the hottest prospects seem to be from the UK. Northern Health is currently exploring the immigration needs and locum opportunities for the two candidates.

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Posted on Thursday, July 19, 2007 03:56 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: REALIST on July 19 2007 10:51 AM

Interesting that these doctors are coming from England where healthcare has been heavily privatized and the results have been tremendous increases in the costs to the taxpayers and public. Perhaps these doctors are fed up with the situation. Just speculation but, the English system has been held up repeatedly as to what can happen when politicians work from ideology and not in the public interest. Remind you of anyone?

Posted by: jonnypg on July 19 2007 11:56 AM

Till they visit Vancouver, and thats were they will want to move to!

Posted by: Don Mackenzie on July 19 2007 2:18 PM

Are the English getting rid of all their Muslim Doctors, and sending them to Canada.

Posted by: ammonra on July 19 2007 3:01 PM

Who knows, Don, they might be South African. A lot of them left their homelend a few years ago when democracy arrived finally.

As a point, private health services has been a major problem throughout Britain (not just England) and caused a lot of headaches, but so did the conversion of hospitals into corporations which have to compete with each other for patients to justify funding. BC also has some of that, with labs, for instance, competing with private labs who skim the easier and more highly reimbursed tests off the top, leaving the non-cost effective ones for the hospitals to do.

As well, Britain has chronically underfunded health care for decades, more so than Canada has. Even so, doctors still visit patients in their homes. Pay is quite a bit less for doctors than it is here, and that will likely be a major factor.

Posted by: Gofaster on July 19 2007 6:36 PM

Yep and they might have a mill again one day too...