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The Ontario College of Family Physicians has solutions Family doctors are calling for urgent action to address serious system-wide inefficiencies taking up too much time that should be spent with patients.

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As a result of recent international identification of a multidrug-resistant strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae as well as one positive Ontario patient with no known travel history, the CMOH is communicating with all public health units and healthcare workers providing sexual health care, including family physicians, to support your clinical care of patients with symptoms consistent with gonorrhea infection.

The Ontario College of Family Physicians has Solutions The number of people without a family doctor in Mississauga has ballooned to at least 101,000 suggesting that nearly 20,000 people lost their family doctor between March 2020 and March 2022.

The Ontario College of Family Physicians has Solutions The number of people without a family doctor in Toronto has ballooned to at least 415,000 suggesting that at least 72,000 people lost their family doctor between March 2020 and March 2022.

During the pandemic, the Ontario government and Ministry of Health recognized the importance of creating a stopgap to ensure that everyone, regardless of whether they had an OHIP card or not, could access the vital health services they needed.

As the Pan-American Health Organization warns of an increasing risk of measles in the Americas and globally and increased travel anticipated for March Break, the Ministry of Health and the Chief Medical Officer of Health have released a memo calling on health system partners to support the health of patients and our communities in the following ways: More information: Epidemiological Alert – Measles – 8 February 2023 – PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

The Ontario College of Family Physicians Shares Solutions New research shows that 2.2 million Ontarians, including more than 360,000 children across the province, do not have a family doctor, which could result in young people missing important care in the early years of life.

The Ontario College of Family Physicians Shares Solutions New research shows that 2.2 million Ontarians, including more than 360,000 children across the province, do not have a family doctor, which could result in young people missing important care in the early years of life.