Ontario is spending less money and allocating fewer resources than it may seem on programs targeted directly to helping find family physicians. Five years into a shortage many in Ontario find it hard to see what’s changed despite assurances by the re-elected Liberals that systems are in place to come to grips with the shortage. Only 1 in 10 Ontario physicians are taking new patients, compared to 4 in 10 in 2002.
But this and other information too often fails to make its way out of the pages of medical journals and into the hands and minds of ordinary citizens to whom it is vitally important.
The COFP Bulletins are our effort to make this information available to readers ranging from the heads of medical associations to reporters, without sacrificing accuracy.
Read the current bulletin online, or download it in PDF format. Or, if you’ve received the printed version, you can review the online references, which contains the citations and abstracts which were not included in the printed version.
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