The college argues governments and advocacy organizations should stop roping family doctors with NPs and pharmacists under catch-all terms like ‘primary care provider.’
The program is planned to accommodate both new initiatives like AI-driven healthcare tools that are still being developed, and established platforms with an already significant user-base.
The federal government is set to add services provided by nurse practitioners to the Canada Health Act this spring as planned under the previous administration.
The Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice said an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 individuals have been sterilized in Canada without proper consent—some as recently as last year.
‘There are many different truths operating at the same time,’ says this early-career psychiatrist of the messiness of moving from textbook theory to practice.
