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This is the message Marie Larose, executive director of the organization, outlined when she spoke to members of the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital board on Tuesday.
The group is comprised of 16 health care professionals including specialists, nurses and registered nurses.
In the last year the group has started nine different programs including cardiac care, nutrition, [...]

Friday, June 13 is the third-annual Today I’m Working for Physician Recruitment Day. Organized by the Southern Georgian Bay Physician Recruitment Task Group, the campaign is designed to raise awareness of the need for family physicians in the Southern Georgian Bay area and raise funds that will be used in the recruitment of family physicians.
“The [...]

An average family doctor is seeing up to two female patients a week who have suffered domestic violence.
But a conference of GPs has been told a woman may endure 35 violent attacks before telling the gardai.
The revelations emerged as the first guide for family doctors on how to deal with patients suffering domestic violence was [...]

An average family doctor is seeing up to two female patients a week who have suffered domestic violence.
But a conference of GPs has been told a woman may endure 35 violent attacks before telling the gardai.
The revelations emerged as the first guide for family doctors on how to deal with patients suffering domestic violence was [...]

News that doctors from other countries will have an easier time entering practice in Ontario may result in more physicians for the Hastings-Prince Edward area — and it could eventually help thousands without a family doctor finally get one.
“I really wish they had done it five years ago,” Dr. Peter Gray, a family physician at [...]

While Peterborough is doing better than some other areas, 15,000 people in the city and county still don’t have a family doctor.
“We still have patients that we need to find room in a family practice for. The challenges that we’ve had in terms of finding appropriate space (for family health teams) are beginning to be [...]

(Adds details, background) By Marc Frank HAVANA, April 8 (Reuters) - President Raul Castro’s government will close more than half of Cuba’s family doctor offices and boost staffing at the rest in a major reform of its vaunted free health care system, medical sources said. The overhaul of one [...]

Municipalities across Ontario are being challenged by Belleville to make a change in the environment and it could cost each household in the province only pennies.
Mayor Neil Ellis told local media Monday he is sending letters to each municipality in the province encouraging them to join Belleville in the “Change For The Environment” initiative. Under [...]

Municipalities across Ontario are being challenged by Belleville to make a change in the environment and it could cost each household in the province only pennies.
Mayor Neil Ellis told local media Monday he is sending letters to each municipality in the province encouraging them to join Belleville in the “Change For The Environment” initiative. Under [...]

By Tim Castle
LONDON (Reuters) - A new pay contract for family doctors in England cost 1.76 billion pounds more than budgeted and has failed to deliver expected improvements in patient care, the government’s accounting watchdog said on Thursday.
The salaries of partners in GP surgeries have soared 58 percent since the contract [...]