Overview
- The proposal represents a 22% increase over Budget 2025 and allocates $7.3 billion for physician services, $450 million for recruitment and education, and $15 million for other supports.
- Provincial leaders say more than 13,000 physicians are registered in Alberta, including a record 6,362 family doctors, reflecting multi-year growth.
- A recent Angus Reid Institute analysis reports Alberta has fewer family physicians per capita than a decade ago, underscoring ongoing access concerns.
- AMA president Brian Wirzba said the association was not briefed in advance, welcomes the focus on investment, and will review the figures before bargaining resumes in March.
- The province plans to launch a public dashboard by April 1 to track attachment to family practitioners, and it set targets to boost RN graduates by 48% by 2030 and train 100 more doctors.