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- On March 28, 2022, the Ontario Medical Association and Ontario Ministry of Health announced that members decisively ratified a new three-year Physician Services Agreement (PSA). As a result, there will be several changes that will affect physicians and how they operate their practices.
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Jan 29, 2024 · Ontario is facing a family doctor shortage in every region of the province and the Ontario Medical Association is warning it will continue to grow unless immediate action is taken by the government.
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Oct 12, 2023 · It outlined five key pillars — reduce wait times and the backlog of services; expand mental health and addiction services in the community; improve home care and other community care; strengthen public health and pandemic preparedness; and give every patient a team of health-care providers and link them digitally — and included 87 ...
- Repeal Bill 124
- Train, Register More Workers
- Build Standalone Centres to Catch Up on Surgical Backlog
- Improve Work Conditions For Staff
- Implement A System to Track, Prevent Staff Shortages
Scrapping the law known as Bill 124 -- which caps wage increases for public sector contracts at one per cent a year for three years — is top of the list for the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario. Doris Grinspun, the association's CEO, said the law needs to be repealed to ensure nurses are adequately compensated for their work, which would e...
Experts say more people need to be registered and trained to work in health care to lighten the workloads of those currently in the sector. Last week, Ontario's health minister directed regulatory colleges for nurses and doctors to develop plans to more quickly register internationally educated professionals. But Grinspun, of the RNAO, said she's w...
Ontario should build publicly funded, standalone health centres that can perform less complex outpatient surgeries and procedures, said Dr. Rose Zacharias, president of the Ontario Medical Association and an emergency department physician. This would free up beds and other resources in hospitals, which Zacharias said would result in shorter patient...
Burnout among health-care workers, and the conditions that contribute to it, need to be addressed, experts say. Grinspun, of the RNAO, said nurses face "brutal" workloads, and having more staff is key to fixing the problem. Mental health support, mentorship and good leadership will in turn aid retention, she added, as nurses contend with nearly thr...
Experts say a national system is also needed to track staffing levels at different health-care institutions to ensure that there is a balanced distribution of the workforce and prevent service disruptions. "In certain areas, we have a lot of people and then a lot more areas, we don't have the optimum capacity, so we don't have enough primary care p...
May 31, 2023 · A shortage of family doctors in the province is only going to get worse if burnout and growing administrative burdens are not addressed, the Ontario Medical Association is warning.
Prescription Progress Report 2023 identifies three urgent areas for immediate attention: ensuring access to team-based primary care led by a family physician, reducing physician burnout and improving access to co-ordinated home- and community-based care.
Apr 23, 2024 · The OMA gathered a group of educators from medical schools across Ontario in an effort to explain some of the reasons students are choosing other fields of medicine to practise in and what some...
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Jan 16, 2024 · With a family doctor shortage, increasing burnout among health-care workers and ever-growing wait times at emergency departments putting more and more pressure on Ontario’s health-care system,...
