The Quebec government announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement in principle with its family doctors, agreeing to delay and amend contentious legislation designed to impose a new remuneration system on physicians.
The Fédération des médecins omnipraticiens du Québec confirmed the two sides agreed to the deal after a negotiation blitz and a meeting between its president and Premier François Legault.
The group says it welcomes the agreement in principle, which it described as an important step in a difficult context.
“We know that many family doctors were until recently juggling with different scenarios for the next steps in their careers, and we’re fully aware of the climate of uncertainty that you have gone through, and the uncertainty isn’t over,” the group wrote on its site….