Nova Scotia Health staff will be calling more than 160,000 Nova Scotians this summer to make sure they’re still looking for a primary care provider.
About 1,100 people are on the waitlist in Queens County.
People on the need-a-family-practice registry are being called now to verify that they still haven’t been assigned a doctor or nurse practitioner.
Noella Whelan is heading up the project for Nova Scotia Health. She’s the senior director of the primary care and chronic disease management network for the department.
She said the department did a similar telephone campaign last summer, when more than 152,000 were on the list. That resulted in 17,500 people identified who could be struck from the waitlist.
She said their systems aren’t automated so they have to rely on people taking themselves off the waitlist or calling them directly to find out.
