Two years ago, the P.E.I. Progressive Conservatives promised everyone on the patient registry would have a family doctor or nurse practitioner by this month. That didn’t happen, and opposition MLAs are demanding an apology from Health Minister Mark McLane. He’s not giving one, but there’s a new deadline in a provincial progress report CBC’s Kerry Campbell has seen. Anyone for March 2026?
The governing Progressive Conservatives’ broken election promise to clear P.E.I.’s patient registry by this month had MLAs questioning the province’s health minister in the legislature Tuesday.
Opposition politicians also questioned the government’s assertion that the Island’s health-care system is improving.
Two years ago, during a provincial election campaign, former premier Dennis King promised to eliminate the registry — the list of people waiting to be assigned to a primary care provider — by April 2025.
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