Doctor Shortage

From pharmacare to physician recruitment, here’s what the major parties are proposing on healthcare.

Patients don’t just need to be “attached,” they need to be cared for. And pharmacists are ready, willing—but still waiting to be part of that solution.

The Canada Health Act has become the electrified third rail in Canadian politics—untouchable legislation that is failing us.

With some Ontario municipalities offering hefty financial incentives to recruit doctors, one local mayor is balking at the idea.

As it currently stands in most provinces, physicians who are licensed to practice in one province have to go through a lengthy application process with a plethora of paperwork and pay thousands of dollars in fees in order to practice in another province.

In wake of the trade dispute between the United States and Canada and concerns over the Trump administration’s healthcare policy, politicians and regulatory colleges are doing more to convince U.S. physicians to move up north.

Pharmacists are already in the trenches, armed with drug knowledge, a shocking tolerance for paperwork and the ability to spot a fake online pharmacy from a mile away (looking at you, “Bob’s Discount Viagra Emporium”). So why aren’t we letting pharmacists do more?

The federal government is cutting spaces for the provincial nominee program in half for all provinces and territories that offer the program.