Ontario Health Care

• Nurse practitioner fees could ‘undermine’ Ontario public health investment: minister

  Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones has written to the federal government asking it to help close what she describes as a 'loophole' in the system.

  Health

  Apr 16
  
• Peterborough County takes new approach to family doctor recruitment

  The Ontario College of Physicians released a report in late February that estimates there are more than 32,000 people without a family doctor in the Peterborough area. 

  Health

  Apr 16
  
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• Ford government promises to close fee-for-service health-care loophole

  More than a dozen health clinics across Ontario, led by nurse practitioners, have started offering a range of health-care services for fees that can average hundreds of dollars.

  Health

  Apr 8
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• ‘Treating people like adults’: Ford dismisses raising drinking age to 21 in Ontario

  Ontario's top doctor recommended exploring a policy to raise the drinking age in the province but Doug Ford has dismissed the idea.

  Canada

  Apr 4
• Extra billing sometimes a ‘misunderstanding,’ Ontario health minister says

  Sylvia Jones says she would not use the phrase 'bad actors' to describe those that have extra billed Ontario patients as the province prepares for more private clinics.

  Health

  Mar 28
• Trying to solve the ‘bottleneck’ of accepting new patients for Ontario family doctors

  A medical clinic in Kingston, Ont., says the province needs to streamline the process for doctors to take on new patients in Ontario after hundreds lined up at its door.

  Health

  Mar 8
• Ontario not ‘writing off anything’ in national pharmcare talks

  Health Minister Sylvia Jones said she needs to hear more details of the federal pharmacare plan before she will decide if it is right for Ontario.

  Health

  Feb 29
• 32,000 residents in Peterborough area without family doctor; 63K by 2026: report

  In 2023, an Ontario College of Family Physicians survey over more than 1,300 family doctors showed 65 per cent plan to leave or change their practice in the next five years.

  Health

  Feb 29
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• ‘Health care in this province sucks’: Hundreds wait for chance to get doctor in Kingston, Ont.

  Tuesday marked the third day a line stretched for blocks outside CDK Family Medicine and Walk-In Clinic in Kingston, Ont. after the clinic said it would be accepting new patients.

  Health

  Feb 28
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• Peterborough, HKPR District public health units agree to voluntary merger

  Ontario's Ministry of Health has offered to provide one-time transition funding and three-year merger support for public health units that combined resources by Jan. 1, 2025.

  Health

  Feb 28