Lethbridge Doctors

• 10 new family doctors practising in Lethbridge, but might already have ‘full panel’ of patients

  Many doctors are walking in to a full patient panel due to backlog, and thereofore, many new doctors are not always accepting new patients right away.

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  Mar 27, 2023
  
• New doctors arriving in Lethbridge as AHS recruitment efforts continue

  'The physicians get requests daily and multiple times a day from people that are looking for doctors or with family members that are looking for doctors.'

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  Jan 4, 2023
  
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• 17 new doctors coming to Lethbridge, some before winter: AHS

  A lack of family physicians in Lethbridge and other parts of southern Alberta has been an ongoing topic of discussion for quite some time.

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  Sep 14, 2022
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• AHS says progress being made on addressing Lethbridge doctor shortage

  Alberta Health Services provided an update on Friday with regard to efforts to attract more family physicians to Lethbridge.

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  Jun 11, 2022
• Lethbridge expected to add 11 more doctors by 2023: officials

  Lethbridge is poised to welcome new doctors through a sponsorship program by the end of this year, according to the associate zone medical director at Chinook Regional Hospital.

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  Apr 28, 2022
• Lethbridge-West MLA calls for UCP ‘action plan’ to address city’s doctor shortage

  A statement from the Health Minister's office says Alberta Health Services has begun recruiting to four new family physician positions in the city.

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  Sep 28, 2021
• ‘Physicians have left’: Lethbridge clinics struggling to meet patient demand

  Six of the eight doctors listed on the CPSA list as having availability said they cannot currently accept new patients.

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  Jun 14, 2021
• ‘We really rely on you’: Southern Alberta doctors urge people to follow COVID-19 rules

  "Regardless of what the rules are, they're only as good as people's intentions to follow them and so we are encouraging people to please do."

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  Mar 30, 2021
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• Southern Alberta physicians express concerns in open letter to premier and health minister

  A group of southern Alberta emergency physicians has submitted an open letter to Premier Jason Kenney and Health Minister Tyler Shandro, urging the province to reconsider incoming changes to the health-care system.

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  Mar 4, 2020