I took this photo in a Dutch ED on a Monday night. It was totally empty.

How do they do it? Strong after-hours primary care.

In the latest episode of the Primary Focus podcast, I take you with me as I visit two 🇳🇱 after-hours centres to see how it works.

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📢 Our latest paper helps explain why we don't have enough family docs to go around.

More and more docs trained in family medicine are choosing to practice in a focused area, usually in a hospital

Full article @annfammed.bsky.social:
www.annfammed.org/content/23/3...

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🎙️ In the latest Primary Focus episode, we meet Kris Arts—a Dutch practice assistant and, in my view, the secret sauce of primary care.

Practice assistants don’t just answer phones—they triage, counsel, vaccinate & more, applying their training in empathy and de-escalation.

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🎧 Just dropped: my first-ever audio documentary! I went to the Netherlands to learn how 99% of people get access to primary care—and how we might bring some of those lessons home to Canada 🇳🇱🇨🇦

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Here's a small taste ⬇️🎙️

What if we designed primary care around Indigenous people — not just added them to a system built for someone else?

In Episode 2 of Primary Focus, Dr. Mandy Buss shares a vision for care grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing and healing.

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How does your primary care measure up?

Take the new OurCare survey to help shape a better system. It takes 10–15 mins and your responses are confidential.

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📣 Please share—we want to hear from everyone in Canada.

So grateful to partner with @cmadocs.bsky.social on this!

On this Doctors Day, I’m sharing a short clip from my conversation with Dr. Mandy Buss — a powerful voice in Indigenous health — about what that gap means and how we can start to close it.

Hear more of our conversation on the 2nd episode of Primary Focus

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In 2022, OurCare found over 1 in 5 Canadians didn't have access to primary care. But what's that stat now?

Take our new survey, share your experience and help us advocate for a better system for all
www.ourcare.ca/survey

The survey is being conducted in partnership with @cmadocs.bsky.social

Here’s a taste. (And yes, I do think the federal government needs to be held to account for its role in healthcare. I hope you do that at the ballot box on Monday.)

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How is it that 6.5M people in Canada don’t have access to primary care?

This has to be a federal election issue.

Ask your local candidates: What’s the plan?

Watch the full video to understand how we got here—and what we can do about it.

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