Despite some progress, Quebec falls short of its family doctor access target

Even if one million more Quebecers now have access to a family doctor than in 2014, that still won’t meet the end-of-year target of 85 per cent set by the government.
But Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette told reporters Wednesday morning that the target was a “symbolic number” and that the province’s physicians “had answered the call.”
Barrette acknowledged the 85-per-cent access threshold — about 300,000 patients more, according to the minis