Ah right, got you.
I imagine it's similar here. When I lived in Cardiff my local GP had the same set of doctors all of the time. Since I've moved, every single appointment has started with "sorry, this isn't my office".
Could well be.
It's tough. Becoming a doc requires a lot of intelligence, effort and dedication. Not many people can or want to go through all of that, yet our population keeps growing and needs more doctors.
Here in Canada we import a ton of our healthcare workers. For a while when I was in University it seemed like every doctor I saw at walk in clinics was South African. These days we have a high number of Filipino nurses, with a permanent resident program that incentivizes them to come here and works with their schools to get the best students.
It makes me wonder what changes we could make to our own education systems or societies to get people who are from here to enter these career paths. (Don't take that wrongly, people, I think it's bad for rich countries to poach the best healthcare talent from less wealthy ones, they need doctors and nurses, too!)