Health Policy News

Health Minister Adriana LaGrange recently held a rural media roundtable regarding the Rural Health Action Plan.

The city has been examining the issue for a while, but mayors of the affected suburbs say they only learned of the potential for a change relatively recently.

Adriana LaGrange says 33 nurse practitioners are now taking patients across the province and another 23 have been approved to practise primary care similar to a family physician.

The bill, if passed, would also require municipalities to get the health minister’s approval to apply for an exemption from the federal government to launch new supervised consumption sites.

The Canadian Mental Health Association says 2.5 million people say they can’t get the care they need.

Adriana LaGrange announced Monday that hospitals now run by Alberta Health Services and Covenant Health would answer to the new agency, Acute Care Alberta, once it's running.

The Ontario Health Coalition is wrong to attack physicians’ innovative efforts to address patient demand, says Dr. Merrilee Fullerton.

Dr. Harley Eisman, interim medical director of pediatric emergency services at Montreal Children’s Hospital, says the increase in patients is due to seasonal viruses spreading at the same time as walking pneumonia cases.