Al0 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 3, 2002 a Minister pays ris looks on. Hansen aiso talked with HEALTH SERVICES minister Colin Hansen, left, tours the newly-renova- ted regional psychiatric unit at Mills Memorial Hospital during a one-day visit to Terrace and Kitimat March 28. ministrative secretary Carlie Phillips whila Skeena Liberal MLA Roger Har- bers of the Terrace Health Watch Group and attended a chamber of commerce luncheon before moving on to Kitimat. a visit He’s shown here speaking with ad- hospital employees, met with mem- Docs, gov’t have deal © both hope will end conflict between them DOCTORS HERE and elsewhere have called off job action following a deal signed last week with the provincial gov- ernment. It provides them with $392 million more for fee hikes and other payments a year over the next three years as well as a say in how the money is to be used. The key was an agreement to find a way to settle disagreements, something that was lacking in a legislated settle- ment brought in by the provincial govern- ment last month, says Dr. Geoff Appleton, a local physician and northern representa- tive on the B.C. Medical Association. “What the docs were most upset about was the lack of arbitration, there was no mechanism,” said Appleton of the legis- lated settlement. “Now we have a commitment to a dis- pute resolution process.” “It wasn’t really about. the money. We recognize thé provineé’ isn’t doing ‘that great and now the new softwood tariff won't help that at all.” Doctors were angered when the legis- lated agreement replaced one that stem- med an arbitration award of earlier this year, The province, in doing away with the arbitration award, said it was too expen- sive. The $392 million a year in last week’s deal is the same amount as was laid out in the legislated agreement and is roughiy the same as was called for in the arbitra- tion award. Of that amount, $185 million is for a general fee increase retroactive in two stages dating back to April 1 of last year and amounting to a hike of just over 11 per cent. Another $80 million is for retroactive paymenis for being on-call, the time per~ iods during which doctors are on standby in case they are needed. Doctors in Terrace are already paid $10 an hour for being on-call, but that is limited ta evenings, overnight, weekends and statutory holidays. The new on-call money will apply across the province, will cover daytime on-call and be more than $10 an hour. The temain- ing $127 million will be parcelled aut for items such as tele- phone con- sultations, telephone prescription renewal, for doctors on . salary for rural in- centives. This point last was Dr. Geoff Appleton wha more money is needed to find and keep physicians in more.remote and isolated © places, ¢ As it is, doctors in Terrace receive a 14 per cent top up of their regular fees and annual bonuses. Those will continue until a new rural agreement is reached. “The legislation wiped out the rural agreement and now it has been brought back,” said Appleton. Part of the planned series of job ac- tions called for doctors here to start char- ging patients this week for phone consul- tations and for phoned-in prescription re- newals, Although last week's deal doesn’t spell out how disputes are to be resolved, said Appleton, the commitment to find a way to settle disputes does represen! some- thing more than doctors had under the le- gislated settlement. “We knew it was unlikely the govern- ment would go back to arbitration,” said Appleton. “Now we have three years of security and we've taken the patient out of the equation,” he said in referring to a de- cade of battles between the doctors and various governments. 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