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The Heart and Stroke Foundation recently conducted a survey regarding virtual care for heart and stroke patients across the country.

Director of Health System Change Dr. Patrice Lindsay says the foundation heard from over three thousand Canadians many of whom said virtual care was often the only option they had since the start of the pandemic.  She explains they’ve found that virtual care was often what was offered to them in an appointment that had already been scheduled as in person which was switched to virtual care where appointments that were new were given virtual and they weren’t really given any option to have one or the other as many people could only operate in a virtual environment.  She say more than half the people they connected with had experienced at least one virtual appointment during this time and a lot of them surprisingly really welcomed it, they really though it was great, clinicians were listening to them, they were able to get their questions answered, it was better than a lot of people anticipated it might be.

However since certain conditions and issues patients have might not translate well to virtual appointments Lindsay says she hopes to see the health care system implement a hybrid in-person/virtual care model post-pandemic that gives Canadians more options on the care they receive.

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