Newborns in Canada must have better primary-care access
Dr. Sloane J. Freeman is a pediatrician at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, and an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto.estimates that 6.5 million Canadians over the age of 18 lack a primary-care physician, and a significant number of these people are parents with newborns.
Many parents bring their newborns to emergency departments and urgent-care centres because they have nowhere else to turn. Some provinces have set up mobile clinics for newborns who don’t have a family doctor. In addition to family physician shortages, newborns face unique challenges in accessing primary care. First, many family physicians devote their practices entirely to the adult population. Second, since the first health care visit should happen within just days after birth, connection to primary care must occur in the prenatal period.
As continuity of care and trusted relationships with primary-care providers are priorities for parents, it would be ideal for a newborn to continue with their primary-care doctor throughout their childhood and adolescence.
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