NPAO calls on Ont. government to improve access to NP services
France Gélinas, MPP for Nickel Belt and the NDP Health Critic has announced she will be introducing a Private Members' Bill to proclaim the second full week in November each year as Nurse Practitioner Week. Representatives of the Nurse Practitioners' Association of Ontario (NPAO) joined her Nov. 15 in the Queen's Park media studio for the announcement. "Ontario's 2,933 nurse practitioners (NPs) deliver a range of high quality health care services to people across Ontario every day," noted Gélinas. "It's important to recognize the valuable contributions made by these professionals and remind the Liberal government that NPs could do even more, if barriers to their practice were finally removed," she said.
