The future of virtual care is in relationships
primary care
Family physicians need to be protected in a pandemic
Quarterbacking healthcare: The central role of family doctors
To revitalize primary care policy, focus on relationships
Theresa
Why business hours are bad for hospitals
Michael
Quebec’s family medicine groups + super-clinics = an equation that doesn’t add up
If exercise is medicine, why don’t doctors talk to their patients about it?
Four ways Canada can shorten wait times for specialists
Anatomy of a referral: Why wait times for specialists are still too long
Let’s not confuse measurable with meaningful in primary care
Medical tests: Why ‘no news is good news’ can be dangerous
Doctor on demand apps let you skip the waiting room. But experts urge caution
Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis on the rise: Is Tinder to blame?
Primary care quality improvement: Is data the future?
Why do so many nursing home residents end up in emergency departments?
This January, Sylvia got a call from a nurse in her mother’s long-term care centre. Her mother, Angela, woke up “extremely agitated and crying in pain,” so the nurses sent her to the emergency department. Sylvia was worried about how her 92-year-old mom, who has dementia, would react to the trip – the lights, the …
What does “access” to primary care really mean?
In the early 2000s, government reforms in Ontario mandated that family physicians provide greater after-hours services for their patients. Family doctors were also incentivized to ensure patients obtained the majority of their primary care from their own family doctor. In some ways, the reforms were successful. Today, more primary care clinics are open evenings and …
The Price-Baker report: What does it mean for primary care reform in Ontario?
Making doctors responsible for the patients in their geographical area. Offering primary care after-hours and on the weekends. And pushing away from solo practitioners and towards interprofessional care. Those proposals were all in the recently released “Patient Care Groups: A new model of population based primary health care for Ontario,” led by McMaster University’s David Price …
Paula K
