A doctor opened the clinic in the Canterbury Community Centre near Meductic last spring, with the goal of offering care to people who needed quick access to a physician for minor ailments, routine screening and prescription refills. But within months
RiseUp: Kids Help Phone's Action Plan for Supporting Black Youth will expand e-mental health services to be more equitable, accessible and culturally informed. KHP says anti-Black racism and systemic racism create significant barriers when Black
A Sask. pilot program will see health clinics be independently operated, publicly funded and staffed by nurse practitioners (NPs). The program will expand the role of NPs throughout the healthcare system, and further opportunities to expand their
Alta.’s budget includes $305 million to support approximately 310,000 operating room procedures. Alberta Health estimates between 60,000 and 65,000 of these publicly funded procedures will be performed by privately-owned chartered surgical facilities
The software predicts likely missed appointments through algorithms and anonymized data, breaking down the reasons why someone may not attend an appointment using external insights including the weather, traffic, and jobs and offers back-up bookings
The New Brunswick Medical Society also says it wasn’t involved in developing the strategy. The strategy and action plan, which the Department of Health committed at least $10.3 million annually toward implementing, haven’t been made public. The
The summit, co-hosted by the Department of Health and the New Brunswick Medical Society, will take place at the end of May. Stakeholders will gather to discuss the transition to team-based primary care. No other details were provided but the medical
The University of Toronto study suggests that even with high immunization rates, unvaccinated people threaten the safety of people vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. Attack rates among those who are vaccinated against COVID-19 were highest when
The survey found that 17% of Canadians vaped in the past 12 months, up seven points since a similar poll conducted in Sept. 2020. Vaping remains more popular among those aged 18-to-34 (26%) than among their counterparts aged 35-to-54 (18%) and aged
Researchers found minimal improvement among those who completed two follow-up assessments and the study reported the most persistent symptoms one year after being discharged from the hospital were fatigue, aching muscles, physically slowing down