primary care

But the core of the crisis and key to this election is GP services, or primary care, largely offered by private clinics.

Soni, a Harvard-trained primary care doctor who sees patients one day a week at an urgent care clinic in Los Angeles County’s public safety net health system, is familiar with the challenges those communities face.

Ruth Rankine, an NHS Confederation primary care director, believes that during times, such as now, when money is tight, collaboration generally becomes harder.

Burr homed in on Canadians’ most common complaint about their system: the long waits for some services, largely resulting from a shortage of primary care doctors.

She said there was a fear GPs would become "an endangered species" if greater budgetary provision was not allocated to primary care.