Provinces roll out phone and video fee codes during COVID-19 crisis 280 of Quebec's specialist physicians in isolationPremier François Legault imposed mandatory 14-day isolation for all health personnel who've returned from abroad on or after March 12 With COVID-19 containment efforts, what are the privacy rights of patients? Ontario severely restricts visitors to long-term care homes Until now, the province had merely recommended that visitors to long-term care homes be screened for symptoms and risk factors for COVID-19, such as recent international travel Hundreds show up to Ottawa COVID-19 assessment centre, but few actually tested The volume of calls to Ottawa's COVID-19 help line have been doubling by the day and non-nursing staff have had to be called in to help. Our window to flatten the COVID 19 curve is narrow, says Dr. Theresa Tam Canadians returning from trips abroad should immediately go into self-isolation for 14 days rather than simply self-monitoring Trudeau says border closures, mandatory screening up for discussion The Liberal government continues to face pressure to close Canada off as well from the outside world. Ontario launches new billing codes for COVID-19 telephone assessments Doctors in other provinces have called for the same, as public experts have lauded creative new efforts for social distancing in clinical settings Ontario public health hasn't stepped up—we need it to, now Doctors have been getting conflicting information about how to handle this pandemic, and PHO has failed to clarify the confusion Barriers removed to allow practice across jurisdictions during pandemic Accelerated process for licences, CMPA membership First Previous 476 477 478 479 480 Next Last
