The National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities has released its latest figures on how many pharmacists and pharmacy technicians there are across the country.
Many specialists ignore the requirements in the schedule of benefits and expect family doctors to deal with follow-up care, ordering tests and admin work, argues Dr. Adam Stewart.
The province is to invest more than $15 million to train and support more internationally educated nurses, like Uche Nechi, who trained in Nigeria and had to wait nearly five years before she was able to resume her career in Alberta.
Dr. Jean-René Pierre, who retired from practice in December 2021, was also the family physician for the patient’s mother and former spouse, according to the Collège des médecins du Québec.
As Trudeau and the provinces talk we need to be clear that increased federal health transfer payments must target the severe shortage of health professionals.
