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Access to what?

  • The health minister expanded who can provide primary care—now we must define what services Canadians are entitled to receive.
Opinion | BY IVY OANDASAN | February 11, 2026
If we want team-based care to deliver on the promise of comprehensive primary care, we need to define what comprehensive means, writes Ivy Oandasan. Pexels photograph by EVG Kowalievska

Access to what?

Opinion | BY IVY OANDASAN | February 11, 2026
  • The health minister expanded who can provide primary care—now we must define what services Canadians are entitled to receive.

Access to what?

Opinion | BY IVY OANDASAN | February 11, 2026
  • The health minister expanded who can provide primary care—now we must define what services Canadians are entitled to receive.
If we want team-based care to deliver on the promise of comprehensive primary care, we need to define what comprehensive means, writes Ivy Oandasan. Pexels photograph by EVG Kowalievska

We need a ‘Carney moment’ in health care

  • We must strengthen the primary care foundation while building an integrated health system—and that requires provinces and territories to finally work together
Opinion | BY IVY OANDASAN | September 4, 2025
With Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government preparing its fall 2025 budget, there's a unique window to rethink health care co-ordination, writes Dr. Ivy Oandasan. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

We need a ‘Carney moment’ in health care

Opinion | BY IVY OANDASAN | September 4, 2025
  • We must strengthen the primary care foundation while building an integrated health system—and that requires provinces and territories to finally work together

We need a ‘Carney moment’ in health care

Opinion | BY IVY OANDASAN | September 4, 2025
  • We must strengthen the primary care foundation while building an integrated health system—and that requires provinces and territories to finally work together
With Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government preparing its fall 2025 budget, there's a unique window to rethink health care co-ordination, writes Dr. Ivy Oandasan. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

All-hands-on-deck approach needed to solve Canada’s primary care crisis

  • Every person in Canada should have access to a primary care team that can manage health issues faced by a patient collaboratively.
Opinion | BY IVY OANDASAN, IVY BOURGEAULT | August 19, 2024
Federal Health Minister Mark Holland. As the setter of national standards, the federal government has an important role to play in supporting the provinces and territories to deliver necessary primary care services, write Dr. Ivy Oandasan and Dr. Ivy Bourgeault. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

All-hands-on-deck approach needed to solve Canada’s primary care crisis

Opinion | BY IVY OANDASAN, IVY BOURGEAULT | August 19, 2024
  • Every person in Canada should have access to a primary care team that can manage health issues faced by a patient collaboratively.

All-hands-on-deck approach needed to solve Canada’s primary care crisis

Opinion | BY IVY OANDASAN, IVY BOURGEAULT | August 19, 2024
  • Every person in Canada should have access to a primary care team that can manage health issues faced by a patient collaboratively.
Federal Health Minister Mark Holland. As the setter of national standards, the federal government has an important role to play in supporting the provinces and territories to deliver necessary primary care services, write Dr. Ivy Oandasan and Dr. Ivy Bourgeault. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

It’s time health-care workers learned how to work in teams

  • We need to reorganize the work of health-care workers to better use their expertise, reduce duplication, and enhance the co-ordination of care experienced outside
Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT, IVY OANDASAN | February 14, 2024
No one practitioner can do it all because this no longer fits the reality of the kind of health issues people face today, write Ivy Bourgeault and Ivy Oandasan. Unsplash photograph by Luis Melendez

It’s time health-care workers learned how to work in teams

Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT, IVY OANDASAN | February 14, 2024
  • We need to reorganize the work of health-care workers to better use their expertise, reduce duplication, and enhance the co-ordination of care experienced outside

It’s time health-care workers learned how to work in teams

Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT, IVY OANDASAN | February 14, 2024
  • We need to reorganize the work of health-care workers to better use their expertise, reduce duplication, and enhance the co-ordination of care experienced outside
No one practitioner can do it all because this no longer fits the reality of the kind of health issues people face today, write Ivy Bourgeault and Ivy Oandasan. Unsplash photograph by Luis Melendez
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