Updated November 19, 2024
Evaluation: After Hours Care reduces ER visits, improves access
BC’s After Hours Care program is making a difference for people and physicians, by connecting people to the care they need when their family physician is not available and removing a top burden experienced by physicians.
The After Hours Care program saw 584 family physicians and nurse practitioners sign up to use the program with their patients in its first year.
The numbers represent an estimated 597,000 patients who now have a family doctor across the five regions included in the program pilot: Greater Victoria, Langley, Shuswap North Okanagan, South Okanagan Similkameen, and the Thompson Region.
“Colleagues who do call shifts, and longitudinal physicians, consider this a win-win project,” says Dr Sarah Chritchley, family physician with the Victoria Division of Family Practice.
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Download an infographic about the pilot evaluation here.