May 21, 2015 - Maple Ridge News: The B.C. family doctor shortage continuing to plague the province may become a distant memory for residents of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. Ridge Meadows Division of Family Practice executive director Treena Innes says local staff who run the program A GP For Me are optimistic their strategies for dealing with the issue will continue to have an impact on the provincial shortage, which has been called critical. Their program research showed there were 17,000 people in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows who did not have a family physician. In its second year, RMDFP, which represents 87 family physicians in the community, has been successful in attracting several practitioners in the past year. Three have been recruited since August 2014. Two more doctors from the U.K. agreed to move to Pitt Meadows and will arrive in July. And another doctor is due to arrive in Maple Ridge in September. Each of them will have the typical roster of patients ranging from 1,500 to 2,000. Read more