British Expats - Differences between nursing in the UK to Canada

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Originally Posted by ponylife (Post 12420039)

Thanks for the replies, laptop died a tragic death over Christmas! Interesting that they remain under the care of the GP, would that still happen over a specialist team if there was involvement of a specialist team? Sometimes we have multiple consultants/teams looking after a patient, ie. oncology and the neurosurgery if they have come to us for brain mets but always the team with the 'current' issue would be the lead and unsure how a GP would fit in with that.

NS has a major shortage of doctors and nurses especially in rural areas or areas that are over 1 hour from Halifax. There is no choice but have the local hospitals covered by GPâ€™s and NPâ€™s/paramedics. GPâ€™s tend to run days and NP/paramedics are generally nights. We see many times if the local rural hospital has a small outpatient or Emergency department closed during the day because there is no GP coverage. Anything major gets transferred to the nearest county hospital or Halifax but is quickly transferred back as soon as stable where GP retakes over care.