Rural and Remote Physician Services Coordination in Northern Ontario: - A Brief Discussion Paper on the Model from British Columbia

Ensuring that physicians and healthcare professionals have the support they need to practice in rural and The Rural Coordination Centre of British Columbia (RCCbc) remote communities in Northern Ontario can make improves working conditions for physicians and healthcare these professionals more at ease to move to and stay in professionals in northern and rural British Columbia. [...] Negotiation: The success of a coordinating organization for rural health professionals in Northern Ontario would also depend on negotiations between physicians in rural and remote Northern Ontario, the Ontario Medical Association, and the provincial government of Ontario to allocate funding from the Ontario Physician Services Agreement to support the organization, following the model that created. [...] It was created in 2019 by the In Ontario, a similar agreement to the British Columbia Government of Ontario with the mandate to: Physician Master Agreement is the Physician Services Agreement, signed between the Ministry of Health and "…connect, coordinate and modernize our province's the Ontario Medical Association and most recently health care system to ensure that the people of Ontario effectiv. [...] The RCCbc model, therefore, actively engages both front- line workers and those designing policies and provides leadership for northern and rural healthcare issues, which the Rural and Northern Health Care Framework/Plan recommended as one of the strategies to enhance governance and accountability in rural, remote, and Northern Ontario (Rural and Northern Health Care Panel 2011, 40-41). [...] Pre-med and other regional health education Finally, policymakers connect the RCCbc with institutions—nursing, paramedic, laboratory technology, governmental and sectoral policies and regulations, and others—would also be well-positioned to form such as the Ministry of Health of BC, the Ministry of Mental partnerships (Ministry of Colleges and Universities Ontario Health and Addictions, the Colleg.