Doctors are not implementing new patient requirement policy

ROTHESAY, N.B. - The registrar of the New Brunswick College of Physicians and Surgeons says they're not implementing any type of policy they would require patients to regularly their doctors.

This comes as reports circulate of a Moncton-area woman being dropped from her doctor's list, after not seeing him for three years.

Dr. Ed Schollenberg says having a doctor set a required amount of visits won't help the province's medical system. "Patients should be seen because there's a reason to be seen, not to set any sort of model and if they don't want to come you can't make that a condition of continuing care."

Schollenberg say while there's no policy on when, or if, doctors should drop patients, they should at least give them proper notice.