Anne Lagacé Dowson
Shoppers Drug Mart wants to set up 250 for-profit pharmacy care clinics by 2025
August 14, 2024 By Anne Lagacé Dowson A report by The Globe and Mail delves into the plan by Loblaw to become one of Canada’s largest...
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Waterloo Region Health Coalition
- Jul 17
- 1 min
Top priority for Canada’s Premiers: high-quality, timely, and publicly funded health care!
Surprising press release from Canada's Premiers Premiers discuss ways governments can work together to better support Canadians HALIFAX,...
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Lisa Johnson
- Jul 5
- 1 min
Alberta town declares health crisis, must pay to keep clinic open as doctor roster dwindles
Hinton mulls paying $500,000 to keep remaining clinic open Lisa Johnson · CBC News · Posted: Jul 04, 2024 8:56 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9...
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Stephen Lewis
- Jun 23
- 1 min
The health care fix too obvious to implement
The solution to Canada's primary care access gap is for communities to grow their own roster of nurse practitioners (NPs). Published Jun...
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Jessica Smith Cross
- Jun 14
- 1 min
Your Ontario health care experiences: ‘Huge wait times. Poor quality care’
'Our government is not OK with that status quo,' says a spokesperson for the Health minister We asked you to share your health-care...
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Ian Adams
- Jun 13
- 1 min
‘It’s a major, major problem for people’: Simcoe County residents face challenges getting primary care, health panel told
Ontario Health Coalition holding panel hearings across province on challenges facing small and rural hospitals. By Ian Adams Barrie...
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Jeff Pickel
- May 20
- 2 min
The cost of homelessness on our health-care system
May 15, 2024 A new study out of London, Ont. lays out the cost of the homelessness crisis on our health-care system. Almost 30,000...
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Merrilee Fullerton
- May 16
- 2 min
What happened to Primary Care and where do we go from here?
Policy makers and politicians have grossly miscalculated the consequences of their decisions to date with respect to family medicine. As...
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Megan Ogilvie
- May 13
- 1 min
The emergency department is no place to be told you have cancer
Patients are ‘routinely’ being diagnosed with cancer in busy Canadian emergency rooms, doctors warn On a recent 12-hour shift, Dr. Kyle...
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Matt Gurney
- May 12
- 2 min
For the love of God, give family doctors more money
OPINION: “More money” may not be the solution for everything. But when it comes to retaining and recruiting GPs, it’s about as close to a...
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Waterloo Region Health Coalition
- May 4
- 1 min
Stop the privatization of our public health care
Ontario funds its public hospitals at the lowest rate in Canada. Every service that has been cut from our public hospitals has been...
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Stu Campaigne
- Apr 30
- 2 min
Ontario edging toward American health care model — health coalition
Ontario Health Coalition plans a May 30 protest. 'We're very close. If people don't care about their health care it's going to happen and...
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Anthony Milton
- Apr 18
- 2 min
“I’ve been a family doctor for more than 20 years. Now, I have no choice but to close my practice
Rising costs, new administrative duties and subsequent burnout have made it impossible for physician Fan-Wah Mang to keep her Mississauga...
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Wayne Doyle
- Apr 8
- 1 min
Province denies application for new family doctor in Elmvale
Springwater Township and family physician had lease agreement ready to go Apr 5, 2024 1:30 PM Working quietly behind the scenes for a...
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Isaac Callan
- Apr 2
- 1 min
Extra billing sometimes a ‘misunderstanding,’ Ontario health minister says
By Isaac Callan & Colin D'Mello Global News Posted March 28, 2024 6:00 am As Ontario continues to significantly expand the role of...
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Katherine DeClerq
- Apr 1
- 1 min
Names of Ontario health-care clinics found to have extra-billed being kept secret
March 22, 2024 The names of physicians and facilities found to have engaged in extra-billing for health services are being kept secret,...
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Barbara Patrocinio
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Health care budget increase for 2024-25 is below the cost of inflation at 1.3
Ontario pledges almost $50 billion over 10 years for health care in 2024 budget. The province is also committing to build 58,000 new...
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Ontario Health Coalition
- Mar 20
- 2 min
Giant Protest & March: The fightback is on to save public health care
Posted: March 18, 2024 Thursday May 30 12 pm noon The Fightback is On Either we save our public medicare now, or we are going to lose it...
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Mike Crawley
- Mar 11
- 1 min
Want more family doctors in Ontario? Pay them better, say physicians
Inflation has outpaced average OHIP billings, prompting some doctors to opt out of family practice Mar 11, 2024 As the number of people...
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Shane Gibson
- Mar 3
- 1 min
‘Health care in this province sucks’
Hundreds wait for chance to get doctor in Kingston, Ont. Shane Gibson, Global News Posted February 28, 2024 5:02 pm Updated February 29,...
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