This podcast - Primary Focus - is 🔥🔥🔥! Strongly recommended for all who care about #primarycare. Congrats @tarakiran.bsky.social.

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🚨Big news from Ontario for health policy 🤓s &
folks wanting solutions to the #familydoctor shortage

Ontario introduced the Primary Care Act 2025
& it could mark a major turning point for how we organize & fund primary care in 🇨🇦
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Ontario Bill 13, Primary Care Act, 2025, sets out six objectives for Ontario's publicly funded primary care system. www.ola.org/en/legislati... via @janephilpott.bsky.social

The Ontario College of Family Physicians welcomes the continued momentum from the Ontario government and the Primary Care Action Team. www.ontario.ca/page/call-pr...

Ontario seeks 80 primary care teams for 300,000 patients as it plans to build a new system The province is planning to build a system that automatically attaches people to a family doctor or nurse practitioner team based on their postal code

Ontario is looking for 80 primary care teams to serve 300,000 patients, as it plans to build a system that automatically attaches people to a family doctor or nurse practitioner team based on their postal code, by Allison Jones www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

It's the 1st anniversary of the publication of #HealthForAll. Couldn't be happier about the ongoing discourse re primary care & other ideas from the book. Thanks to all who read, reviewed & shared the ideas, incl this podcast that helped get the story out: www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...

Protecting Our Collective Future: Renewing Canada’s Role in Global Health Overview of "Protecting Our Collective Future: Renewing Canada’s Role in Global Health"As we near the second quarter of the twenty-first century, the global health terrain is shifting in important way...

Our @bmj.com piece summarises the arguments & recommendations from the NEW @src-rsc.bsky.social / CAHS report on Canada's past and future role in #globalhealth #ODA #foreignaid #SRHR #multilateralism

Full EN report here
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Canada should seize the opportunity to lead on global health challenges and cooperation Greater cooperation in global health is needed to tackle challenges and to harness new opportunities. Canada should take a greater leadership role, write Jocalyn Clark , Timothy Evans , and Kelley Lee...

Current chaos and challenge needs.... greater global cooperation.

In the area of multilateral & #globalhealth, we argue that Canada should take a greater leadership role.

Me, Tim Evans & Kelley Lee in today's @bmj.com

#cdnpoli #CanadaElection

A blue tile with a quote from Dr. Jobin Varughese, President of the Ontario College of Family Physicians, which reads "This announcement recognizes the foundational role family physicians play in our health care system and reflects the OCFP’s long-standing advocacy for team-based care and the use of new technology to better support family doctors. The implementation of this plan will be critical - we look forward to continuing our collaboration with the government and Dr. Philpott to ensure every Ontarian has access to a family physician and receiving the primary health care they deserve. "

Great news. The OCFP is encouraged by the quick progress made by the Ontario Primary Care Action Team and today’s commitment to expand access to integrated primary care teams and enhance digital tools for family physicians. @janephilpott.bsky.social

New health research group president targets areas of greatest impact Dr. Paul Hebert of Ottawa has started a five-year term as head of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

New president of Canadian Institutes of Health Research,
Dr. Paul Hébert, targets areas of greatest impact, by @egpayne.bsky.social ottawacitizen.com/news/new-hea... via @ottawacitizen.com

Wow, thanks for the kind feedback @jonherriot.bsky.social 🙂

The world would be a better place if we talked to strangers It is no surprise that talking to people we don’t know has become a rare habit: Civil discourse in general is on life support

The world would be a better place if we talked to strangers. It is no surprise that talking to people we don’t know has become a rare habit: Civil discourse in general is on life support, by Ian Brown www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... via @theglobeandmail.com

@janephilpott.bsky.social great discussion on @CBC today. I have read several of these books and am seeing a change in the discussions we are having about #life and #death and #illness and #health. Also your #HealthforAll book needs to be read by every politician at ever level!

Happy New Year!🥳 Here’s hoping for a 2025 full of grace and peace.❤️

Jimmy Carter’s Quiet but Monumental Work in Global Health (Gift Article) In his decades as a former president, he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, helped bring lifesaving treatments and sanitation to poor people around the world.

"This was the best thing Jimmy Carter ever did" www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/h...

When I think of President Jimmy Carter I think above all of his profound sense of service, of faith, and of personal decency.

Gonna be a lot written about Jimmy Carter in the coming days, but for my money his public health work outshines anything else he or any other person in the political sphere did in my lifetime. That’s the story.

Best wishes for Christmas joy, from our family to yours!🎄🧑‍🎄

Need a Family Doctor? Jane Philpott Can Help. - Macleans.ca Canada's former health minister is diving back into politics to get every Ontarian a primary care provider within five years. Now comes the hard part.

Need a family doctor? @janephilpott.bsky.social can help. Q+A by Katie Underwood
macleans.ca/society/heal... via @macleans.bsky.social #PrimaryCare

Jane Philpott on getting every Canadian a family doctor - PPF Former health minister Dr. Jane Philpott outlines why Canada needs a health-care system reboot that's focused on primary care for everyone

Dr. Philpott recently spoke with @egreenspon.bsky.social in an episode of PPF's podcast WONK about why Canada needs a health-care system reboot that's focused on primary care for everyone.

Have a listen:

Dr. @janephilpott.bsky.social begins her role this week as Chair of Ontario's Primary Care Action Team, tasked with connecting every person in Ontario to primary health care within the next five years.

Introducing the Jane Philpott Primary Care Fund They say all endings are really new beginnings. As the Queen’s community prepares to say farewell to Jane Philpott, she is leaving a parting gift that will have a lasting impact long after her time at...

Tomorrow is my last day as dean Queen's Health Sciences & CEO SEAMO. As a parting gift, I'm donating honoraria I've received this year & using the seed funds to launch the Jane Philpott Primary Care Fund to support research & innovation in primary health care. healthsci.queensu.ca/stories/feat...

Kingston ‘health homes’ put Jane Philpott’s vision of primary care to the test A former federal health minister wants family medicine to look more like public schools, with catchment areas to reach people where they live. In Ontario, a lucky few can now try it out for themselves

An experiment in Ontario to improve #PrimaryCare puts @janephilpott.bsky.social vision to the test. Q+A w/ @kellygrant1.bsky.social
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I’m really glad to see Jane Philpott in this Ontario role! Health systems with strong primary care (including family doctors) achieve better health outcomes at lower costs.

Can Jane Philpott fix Ontario health care? All the party leaders wanted her. The Conservative premier won. Pressure's on.

Here's my conversation on the Paul Wells podcast about my new job with Ontario's primary care action team & our big task of ensuring that everyone in the province is attached to a primary care clinician working in a publicly funded team. paulwells.substack.com/p/can-jane-p... @inklesspw.bsky.social

Jane Philpott standing at lectern on stage

Great to hear @janephilpott.bsky.social speak about health systems leadership + opportunities for primary care reform at @ualberta.bsky.social School of Public Health’s Douglas R Wilson lecture today.

First actual post on this platform will be about the annual Fat Ass trail run in Batawa ➡️ family fun, competitive cousins, 6 hours of mostly walking the hills for me, but Bethany pulled off a great pace and picked up 1st place in the Bad Ass Women’s 6-hour run.🏃‍♀️🥳