House call

The reasons for fewer house calls include concerns about providing low-overhead care in the home, time inefficiency, and inconvenience.

Also, it can provide safe access to care by people who are ill.[4] Today, house calls may be making a revival among the wealthy through concierge telemedicine and mobile apps.

[5][6] In 2012 as part of its Action Plan for Healthcare[7] the province of Ontario actively expanded funding for access to house calls with its primary focus being on seniors and those with physical limitations making it difficult for travel outside the home.

Each general practitioner (therapeut) out of some 10 to 20 working in each state outpatient health centre serves his patients on weekdays both in his room during his 3–4 reception hours and spends another 3–4 hours on house visits (which become most numerous during flu and colds epidemics and can reach 40 per day) on his assigned block of streets with a standard number of residents.

The purpose of such visit is primary diagnostics and prescription of treatment and mode of conduct as well as prescribing blood, urine and other tests to be carried out at the polyclinic.