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Second Interim Report from the Premier's Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine
The Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine released its second interim report on June 25, 2019, entitled "A Healthy Ontario: Building a Sustainable Health Care System."
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Espanola and Area FHT's Rapid Access Addiction Medicine (RAAM) Clinic Grand Opening
Manitoulin Expositor article published June 12, 2019
By Press Release, Manitoulin Expositor
Increasing Access and Coordination of Addiction Treatment for People in Espanola
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AFHTO 2019 Conference: Registration now live
Registration now open for the AFHTO 2019 Conference!
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Change can come fast and furious, and Ontario’s healthcare system is no exception.
environmental scan of social determinants of health and equity in primary care
Hi:
I am currently carrying out an environmental scan of primary care-based interventions into health inequities and the social determinants of health in Canada. I am working with a student, Nazeefah Laher, to compile a list of primary care providers engaged in this work.
2019 Conference Themes
Cancer Care Ontario transitioning to fecal immunochemical test
Message on behalf of Cancer Care Ontario.
Cancer Care Ontario through its ColonCancerCheck (CCC) screening program is transitioning to the fecal immunochemical test (FIT) as the recommended screening test for people at average risk of developing colorectal cancer. The guaiac fecal occult blood test (gFOBT) will no longer be used in the CCC program.