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‘It’s chronic disease, stupid!’ The central challenge facing health care
Friday, February 20th, 2026
A well-integrated interprofessional health-care system, rooted in primary care and configured to support patients with chronic conditions and their informal caregivers, has the potential to improve health outcomes, curb health-care spending and reduce reliance on hospital care… Government policies that fail to meaningfully support public health and social safety nets ultimately drive higher chronic disease rates and greater downstream health-care costs.
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Ontario needs more psychologists. These changes finally address the long-standing obstacles to care
Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Across Canada, other provincial and territorial regulators have safely relied on shorter, well-designed supervision periods for many years. Ontario already recognizes psychologists trained under these models through Canadian labour mobility rules that require provinces and territories to register professionals who are already registered elsewhere in Canada, even if their training followed different, shorter, timelines.
Tags: Education, jurisdiction, mental Health
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For women who live on the margins, health care is often out of reach. Here’s how we can build a bridge to access
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
A community health worker (CHW) is typically a trusted member of the local community who understands the challenges of those who are sick or socially excluded. With targeted training, CHWs can conduct basic health screenings for conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, breast and cervical cancer, and reproductive and mental health problems. Importantly, CHWs act as bridges to primary care physicians… This approach builds trust, continuity and access…
Tags: mental Health, participation, poverty, women
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Ford government says 300,000 more people have access to primary care
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
… Jones said the targets can be achieved through the increase in primary care teams, expansion of residency programs for Ontario-trained doctors and making it easier for foreign-educated physicians to practice here… the province is also adding 340 undergraduate seats and 551 postgraduate positions in medical schools over five years and many family doctors are taking on more patients… through the primary care teams.
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Reducing Ontario health care waits: Six solutions avoiding privatization pitfalls
Friday, January 9th, 2026
Canada has long been among the worst performers on specialist wait times in high income countries… Every dollar Ontario shifts to private medicine is a dollar not spent on public health-care… Four of these six fixes leverage technology Ontario already owns. Each would reduce misery, lower wait times and save lives. Refusing to act isn’t caution — it’s complicity. Wait times aren’t a matter of shortage, they’re a policy choice
Tags: Health, rights, standard of living
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B.C. showed how to fix the family doctor crisis — but Ontario’s not listening
Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
The real issue is that a growing number of family physicians — now 1-in-5 — opt out of comprehensive general practice and pursue focused roles, like ER shifts or walk-in clinics. The number of physicians rejecting cradle-to-grave care has nearly tripled since the 1990s… Ontario’s $1.8‑billion investment in Family Health Teams — partnerships linking family doctors with services like nurses, social workers and mental health providers — addresses these issues and improves care.
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Three lessons Canada can learn from Australia’s health-care system
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
First, expanding access and improving health outcomes can happen without massive increases in public spending… Second, more private-sector involvement in health care is not a cure-all… Third, minimizing administrative burdens will foster a more efficient and effective health-care system… Canada’s federal government should take the lead in co-ordinating and funding comparative analyses of the two countries’ health-care systems…
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As the family doctor and nursing shortage gets worse, here is an innovative solution that will help
Thursday, September 25th, 2025
The province’s use of electronic health records remains far behind its potential… Health-care shortages could kick‑start a revolution in patient care and give patients real‑time access to the medical services they need and the ability to arrange them with a few clicks. It would free family doctors to do the work only we can do… No Ontarian should have to risk missing a cancer diagnosis, waiting months for a vaccine or spending hours in an ER because the system is stuck in the past.
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Ford government announces new deal with doctors — with pay boost and incentives to take on more patients in family medicine
Monday, September 22nd, 2025
The Ford government has reached a new deal with Ontario’s doctors, announcing on Thursday a four-year agreement that boosts compensation for physicians and includes measures that will encourage more to practise comprehensive family medicine. The agreement… will see physicians get a 7.3 per cent increase in compensation over the next three years. This builds on a 10 per cent increase that doctors received in the first year of the agreement, awarded by an arbitrator last year.
Tags: budget, Health, participation
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Thousands of Ontario family doctors to get new compensation deal
Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
The updated model — called FHO+ — recognizes that practising comprehensive family medicine has changed in recent years, with administrative tasks taking up more of a doctor’s time. It will allow doctors to bill for clinical and administrative tasks, such as such as charting, reviewing test results and filling out forms… the FHO+ model opens additional spaces for doctors to join family health organizations. Both the OMA and the government say this will increase access to comprehensive primary care.
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