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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 [...]

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 [...]

Support is growing for a nurse-led clinic in Belleville.
In its recent budget, the McGuinty government announced that 25 of the clinics will be funded for underserviced areas in the province. Belleville has been designated underserviced.
Some Belleville nurses - including nurse practitioner Tammy Armstrong, who is one of the prime movers behind the clinic - knew [...]

The role of primary health care is, well, primary. Barbara Starfield, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has written extensively on the subject. In an article in the Boston Review, she concluded that %26quot;a good relationship with a freely chosen primary care doctor Â… is associated with better care, more appropriate [...]