Licensing

Health Minister Sylvia Jones recently directed the College of Nurses of Ontario to develop plans to more quickly register internationally educated professionals within two weeks.

The plan comes as nursing staff shortages have seen emergency departments across the province close throughout the summer for hours or days at a time.

Training was seen as a barrier to access methadone for pain management.

In this newly launched column, you send us your questions and we'll get an expert to answer it. Dr. Ryan Korda, a Toronto family physician, asked us for help with recruiting a doctor.

Full four years now offered in Regina.

Doctors from the Sunshine Coast, north of Vancouver, have put a notice in a local newspaper letting folks know how they can help.

Michael El Raheb is also banned from pharmacy ownership for three years, according to the discipline decision handed down by the Ontario College of Pharmacists.