The Still Calling campaign aims to retain and recruit more nurses by painting the career in a better light. The New Brunswick Nurses Union (NBNU) says the last few years were challenging, pointing to the pandemic, staffing shortages and conditions
The Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub is a space for people in healthcare to collaborate on providing better healthcare. The space allows partnerships with healthcare staff, researchers, industry innovators and government to address the challenges
The funding will create eight integrated youth services (IYS) sites across the province that will bring community-based services for youth ages 12 to 25. Support will range from mental health services, including counselling and peer support, to
The Indigenous Children Eye Exam (ICEE) project started several years ago with eyecare specialists from the Hamilton area visiting remote northern Ont. communities to provide vision screening and eye exams to Indigenous children and teens under the
The William Osler Health System, which operates hospitals in Brampton and Etobicoke, drastically cut colorectal cancer screening, diagnosis and surgeon referral wait times by combining a pair of programs to streamline how patients are processed. The
Clinique Médicale Access Medical Clinic, which has Marie-Claude Bourdages as its family physician, would like to give family doctors access to 10,000 New Brunswickers by bringing on two more family doctors. The clinic is in negotiations with Vitalité
The provincial government says the following changes to regulations will provide more support to physicians and improve access to care for Islanders: Physician Assistants (PAs) will be integrated into the P.E.I. healthcare system. They currently work
The report said the summer season will likely be "precarious and exhausting months" for healthcare workers in ERs, with impacts ranging from lengthy wait-times to hospital closures. The report referred to the crisis as a "perpetual cycle" that’s
The roadmap reflects the input of 23 expert reviewers, Health Canada being one of them. Top of the list is a recommendation to do better data collection, analysis and reporting. The experts say this should involve greater consistency under a federal
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine University (NOSM) teaches medicine, along with a few things that could influence where doctors choose to practice. The university recruits students from rural communities and 90% of its student body comes from