Western Standard - December 15, 2022


Alberta's government says important step with AMA provides stability

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Arthur Green Arnalda
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In this episode, Dr. Arthur Green, Western Standard Minister, talks about the Alberta Health Practitioners Professional Development Agreement with the Province of Alberta. Dr. Green explains the importance of the agreement and the benefits it brings to the province's relationship with doctors.

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00:00:00.200 Arthur Green, Western Standard. Minister, how does this new agreement strengthen the province's relationship with doctors?
00:00:09.260 It does in a number of ways. I guess the first thing is about partnership.
00:00:12.660 First, we got an agreement and the key component and core of this is about partnership.
00:00:18.100 So we have a working committee, like the Management Committee,
00:00:21.800 and that Management Committee will help us implement the issues in the agreement
00:00:24.700 or implement the items that we've agreed to in the agreement and make sure that we get it right
00:00:29.140 and we agree on, you know, the agreement is done at a higher level,
00:00:32.700 so how do we actually implement it to make it right?
00:00:34.700 It also provides us an opportunity to address jointly a number of the issues that have been raised.
00:00:39.640 Plus, as we move through the agreement and we look at what's going on in the health care system,
00:00:43.940 it provides us an opportunity to work together to talk about those issues and solve them.
00:00:47.600 So, you know, that was a cornerstone partnership of this agreement.
00:00:50.680 The other way that that also helps is about stability, right?
00:00:54.120 You know, having an agreement so that doctors know what their source of revenue is,
00:01:00.260 you know, and can project it in the future significantly helps, you know,
00:01:03.380 do we make an investment in more practice?
00:01:05.540 You know, do we expand that?
00:01:07.380 What do the economics look like?
00:01:08.960 Because if you take a look, you know, these are small businesses, right?
00:01:13.560 So they need to understand what their revenue source is.
00:01:15.780 So just having an agreement over a four-year period so they know what that looks like
00:01:19.680 and then a commitment to work together to address the issues,
00:01:22.920 I think those are the big components from my perspective.
00:01:25.120 But I don't know, Dr. Arnalda, if you wanted to comment further on that.
00:01:29.480 No, I mean, I think that's a huge issue.
00:01:32.420 Certainly for community practice, all business physicians need to know
00:01:37.000 what their revenue source is, you said it correctly.
00:01:40.000 I think for physicians who are looking at opportunities to practice
00:01:43.360 in different parts of the country are hesitant to come somewhere
00:01:47.560 where they know either they don't have a predictable income source
00:01:52.240 or they don't have a predictable resource source to practice to their level of skills.
00:01:59.640 So it's, you know, it's very difficult to get the sub-sub-specialist neurosurgeon in here
00:02:04.700 if we don't even do that procedure in Alberta.
00:02:07.680 So all those things, having a voice by a formal agreement can only improve things.
00:02:13.940 Before that, when we had no agreement, we sort of had nowhere to go
00:02:17.280 and it was just drifting.