Federal Health Minister Mark Holland says provincial and territorial health plans will cover primary care provided by nurse practitioners, pharmacists and midwives.
Holland says regulated health-care professionals who aren't doctors will be able to bill the government for medically necessary services that would otherwise be provided by a physician.The minister says the changes are part of a new interpretation of the Canada Health Act that takes effect on April 1, 2026.
Holland issued the directive in an "interpretation letter" — revising which providers fall under Canada's medicare system — sent to health ministers on Thursday but released publicly on Friday morning. Nurse practitioners in particular can help relieve the pressure on primary care physicians and the health-care system as a whole, he said.
In that March 9, 2023, letter, Duclos pledged to issue a revised interpretation of the Canada Health Act to prevent that from happening.Last September, Canadian Doctors for Medicare wrote to the Prime Minister's Office asking when that "long-awaited" interpretation would be released. Holland said the delay was due to ongoing consultation with provincial and territorial governments over the last two years to cultivate agreement on the new policy.
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The mother of a three-year-old Toronto boy is urging her former husband who is wanted in a parental abduction investigation to bring their son back to Canada from India.Canada's emergency preparedness minister says Canadian military personnel, their equipment and another 250 firefighters stand "ready to support our American neighbours" as wildfires devastate parts of Southern California.
Actor Alec Baldwin has filed a civil lawsuit for malicious prosecution and civil rights violations in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the western movie 'Rust.' Former U.S. Olympian Gary Hall Jr. won 10 Olympic medals and six world championship medals in his swimming career. He believes he’s lost them all in the Palisades wildfire, he said to the Sydney Morning Herald.UK Athletics – the governing body for track and field in the United Kingdom – and a former official have been charged with manslaughter following the death of a 36-year-old Paralympian in 2017, the Crown Prosecution Service announced on Wednesday.
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