Spotlight

April 21, 2025

Implementation of Registered Nurse Prescribers in Nova Scotia

Nursing Leadership has launched a special issue on RNs in Primary Care. Cindy MacQuarrie et. al. contributed this commentary providing perspectives from the Nova Scotia (NS) RN prescribing steering committee and shares the achievement that took place in NS when a learning health system approach was applied. Read here.

Events

Thursday, May 15, 2025  - Toronto, Ontario Longwoods Breakfast Series

The Evidence No Longer Speaks for Itself: Reclaiming Trust in a World of Information Chaos

Dr. Michael Schull, CEO and Senior Scientist, ICES, Helen Angus, CEO, AMS Healthcare and Dr. Chris Simpson, Acute and Hospital-Based Care Executive Vice-President, Chief Medical Executive, Ontario Health

Longwoods Breakfast Series

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Articles

News

Apr 23, 2025 Health & Healthcare News
Ontario to boost rural, northern primary and emergency care in agreement with OMA

2025-04-23 from globalnews.ca Ontario is introducing a new program to stabilize physician staffing in rural emergency departments and putting more money toward helping people in underserved comm [...]

Apr 21, 2025 Health & Healthcare News
Alberta’s request to question fired AHS CEO over confidential emails granted

2025-04-21 from calgaryherald.com EDMONTON — A judge has granted Alberta’s government its request to question the former head of the provincial health authority about confidential em [...]

Apr 21, 2025 Health & Healthcare News
Canadians heading to vote face sticker shock for primary care at private clinics

2025-04-21 from cbc.ca Ahead of the federal election, Canadians are worried about access to health care. Some private clinics, which are growing in number, charge thousands a year for primary ca [...]

Editor's Picks

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Introduction The optimization of the roles and skills that all healthcare professionals play is imperative, not the least of which is in the foundational primary care sector.  Data abound about how so many different healthcare professionals are constrained in their ability to apply in the provision of care the skills for which they have trained so diligently to master – and for which they and the Canadian public have supported financially through the funding of training institutions [...]

 

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