According to CIHI’s new report on the state of Canada’s health workforce, 5.7 million Canadians don’t have a primary care provider. In this episode, host Alya Niang talks with François Desmeules, Clinical physiotherapist, about one way to ease pressures on family doctors due to an aging and injured population. It’s a growing trend in Canada and other parts of the world known as first-contact physiotherapy: allowing patients to see a physiotherapist when they have back and joint pain, arthritis and sports injuries instead of waiting to see a doctor. Studies show that first-contact physiotherapy helps patients faster — and at a lower cost to the system — while freeing up primary care providers for other patients in need Vous trouverez les transcriptions des épisodes sur la page Web du Balado.Apprenez-en plus à propos de l’Institut canadien d’information sur la santé (ICIS).Passez nous voir sur LinkedIn, Facebook et Instagram, ou abonnez-vous à notre chaîne YouTube. Vous pouvez aussi rester au fait des dernières nouvelles et de nos communiqués grâce à notre infolettre mensuelle.Want to listen to the podcast in English? Visit the Canadian Health Information Podcast.