The main issue in our recent negotiations, namely, access to a family physician, remains a top priority for the FMOQ. In our view, now more than ever, improving access comes down to two essential elements: increased professional and technical support to family physicians and a competitive economic environment for general practitioners who take on the management and monitoring of patients. That's why we insisted that measures to partially offset practice expenses and to provide supplements for physicians taking on new patients be implemented as of last November. >>>