{"id":8122,"date":"2025-01-07T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8122"},"modified":"2025-01-07T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:45:55","slug":"more-than-100000-nova-scotians-still-looking-for-doctor-nurse-practitioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/01\/07\/more-than-100000-nova-scotians-still-looking-for-doctor-nurse-practitioner\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100,000 Nova Scotians still looking for doctor, nurse practitioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6429\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6429\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ccaworkcommns-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ccaworkcommns-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ccaworkcommns-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ccaworkcommns-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ccaworkcommns.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 10 per cent of Nova Scotians are still looking for a family doctor or nurse practitioner. (Communications Nova Scotia)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More people are dropping off the Need a Family Practice Registry in Nova Scotia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to numbers released Tuesday by Nova Scotia Health, 9,200 people either found a doctor in the past month or were removed from the list.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just over 110,000 Nova Scotians are still looking for a primary care provider. That\u2019s down from more than 119,670 on Dec. 4. About 10.5 per cent of the population does not have reliable access to primary care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nova Scotia Health officials have been contacting people on the list to confirm they still need a doctor or nurse practitioner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Health officials stopped providing breakdowns by region last summer. The last update in June showed that about 10 per cent of Queens County residents were still looking for a doctor or nurse practitioner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The next update is planned for early February.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More people are dropping off the Need a Family Practice Registry in Nova Scotia. According to numbers released Tuesday by Nova Scotia Health, 9,200 people either found a doctor in the past month or were removed from the list.\u00a0 Just over 110,000 Nova Scotians are still looking for a primary care provider. That\u2019s down from [&hellip;]<\/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":[2510,1595,2508,537,2794,2511,1998,1927,2512,49],"class_list":["post-8122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-doctor","tag-health-care","tag-need-a-family-practice-registry","tag-nova-scotia-health","tag-nova-scotians","tag-nurse-practitioner","tag-patients","tag-primary-care","tag-primary-care-provider","tag-queens-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122","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=8122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8123,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions\/8123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}