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Adding Chesley and Durham physicians to the already established Brockton and Area Family Health Team would not only allow for the hiring of more allied health care professionals in the area, it would also make history.
Chesley and Durham doctors were invited earlier this year to be part of the Brockton Family Health Team. A business [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

A report published yesterday by Statistics Canada sought to answer whether sexual identity had anything to do with having a regular doctor, consulting health-care providers, taking preventive screening tests and having any unmet medical needs.It found that gay men were much more likely than heterosexual men to have consulted a doctor or medical specialist in [...]