As small communities across Ontario struggle to recruit doctors and nurses, one town has landed on a strategy that appears poised for success: giving them […]
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Ontario offering RSV vaccines to more young children and to pregnant women
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario is expanding its respiratory virus vaccination program this year for infants, high-risk children and pregnant women […]
Ontario considering expanding pharmacists’ powers to treat more common ailments
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 24, 2024 1:25 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario is looking […]
$1M legacy donor pulls funds, calls out Ontario hospital’s ‘bizarre and costly’ board decisions
“How can anyone consider supporting (London Health Sciences Centre)?” a former board member asks in a scathing letter calling out the current board of directors […]
Number of Ontarians without family doctor reaches 2.5 million, college says
By Nicole Ireland The Canadian Press Posted July 11, 2024 1:45 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Ontario […]
Ford government begins licensing new private MRI, CT scan clinics
The Ford government is formally asking for new private health clinics to apply to enter the publicly funded health-care system as it ramps up its […]
Community’s fight to preserve local health care echoes problems across Ontario: ONA
The small community of Durham, Ont., is fighting to keep its local health services after it was announced earlier this year that its hospital would […]
‘Fire that minister’: Ontario NDP calls on Ford to sack minister of health
The Ontario NDP is calling for Ontario Premier Doug Ford to sack his health minister over the suggestion that the province is not struggling to […]
Ontario’s freedom of information system is ‘broken,’ critics say
Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles says the province’s access to information system is “broken” after two Ford government ministries made contradictory decisions over the release […]
There is no concern about a ‘diminished supply’ of doctors in Ontario: ministry
Recruitment and retention of doctors in Ontario is “not a major concern,” the Ministry of Health suggests in arguments it is making in arbitration with the Ontario Medical Association […]