5.4M adults don’t have primary care, CIHI report says

A new report says 17 per cent of Canadian adults (or about 5.4 million people) don’t have a primary care provider. As Katherine Ward explains, federal funding was introduced this year to help increase access, but only time will tell how much those tax dollars will help people trying to find a doctor or nurse practitioner.

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