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All patients should have access to a primary care team with a minimum composition of a family physician and/or nurse practitioner, dietitian, nurse, occupational therapist, pharmacist, physiotherapist and social worker. (Shutterstock)

Access to care: 5 principles for action on primary health‑care teams

Catherine Donnelly, Queen's University, Ontario; Jennifer Lake, University of Toronto; Jordan Miller, Queen's University, Ontario, and Rachelle Ashcroft, University of Toronto

A newly created Primary Care Action Team has a lofty goal: to ensure all Ontarians have access to primary health care within five years. Here are five principals to consider to help achieve it.
Research shows that uninsured people are more likely to get care later in pregnancy, and less care overall. This increases risks for mothers and babies. (Shutterstock)

An emergency in the making: Ending pandemic prenatal health coverage for uninsured people is both costly and dangerous

Manavi Handa, Toronto Metropolitan University

Discontinuing expanded health-care funding will result in less prenatal care for uninsured patients, more health risks, higher costs to the health system, and moral distress for health-care providers.

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  1. emergency care
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  6. Immigration status
  7. Ontario
  8. Prenatal care
  9. Surgery
  10. Universal health care

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