{"id":7641,"date":"2024-07-26T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7641"},"modified":"2024-07-26T10:39:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:39:01","slug":"nova-scotia-health-to-verify-those-still-needing-a-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/07\/26\/nova-scotia-health-to-verify-those-still-needing-a-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia Health to verify those still needing a doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nova Scotia Health will be calling people over the next several weeks to verify that they’re still looking for a primary care provider. (Pixabay)<\/p><\/div>\n

If you\u2019re one of the 1,100 people in Queens County still looking for a primary care provider, you may be getting a call from Nova Scotia Health.<\/span><\/p>\n

Officials will be phoning people on the need-a-family-practice registry over the next several weeks to confirm whether they\u2019re still looking for a doctor or nurse practitioner.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a release from Nova Scotia Health, people will be called from either a blocked number, one they don\u2019t recognize or an unknown name and number.<\/span><\/p>\n

Staff won\u2019t ask you to provide any personal information besides the last four digits of your Nova Scotia health card and your birth date.<\/span><\/p>\n

They will also ask for confirmation of your phone number and physical and email addresses.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the news release, this is so that the department can contact people when a doctor or nurse practitioner is available to take new patients.<\/span><\/p>\n

Health staff will also be calling people who added their name to the list because their provider told them they\u2019d be retiring. This is to confirm whether their doctor retired.<\/span><\/p>\n

The registry hasn\u2019t been updated since June 1. According to CBC News, opposition politicians this week accused the government of withholding up-to-date numbers on how many people still need a doctor or nurse practitioner.<\/span><\/p>\n

As of June 1, 160,234 Nova Scotians were still on the registry. About 10 per cent of Queens County residents are still looking for a primary care provider. That compares to about 23 per cent of the population in the Bridgewater area.<\/span><\/p>\n

QCCR will have an interview on Friday with Noella Whalen, the senior director of the primary care and chronic disease management network with Nova Scotia Health. Whalen is leading the project.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re one of the 1,100 people in Queens County still looking for a primary care provider, you may be getting a call from Nova Scotia Health. Officials will be phoning people on the need-a-family-practice registry over the next several weeks to confirm whether they\u2019re still looking for a doctor or nurse practitioner. According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[2510,788,1595,2508,2507,241,537,2511,2509,1927,2512,49],"class_list":["post-7641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-doctor","tag-family-doctor","tag-health-care","tag-need-a-family-practice-registry","tag-noella-whalen","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nova-scotia-health","tag-nurse-practitioner","tag-phone-calls","tag-primary-care","tag-primary-care-provider","tag-queens-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7642,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions\/7642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}