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In a tight 8-7 vote, London city council has decided to pull its share of funding from a recruitment drive to bring desperately needed family doctors to the city. LFP’s Jack Moulton looks at the program: what it does, why funding was yanked, and what it will mean going forward. WHAT IS THE PROGRAM? The […]
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A city council committee endorsed increased funding for a family doctor recruitment strategy that has had some success, even if some members are uneasy about it. Council’s community and protective services committee ultimately recommended an $80,000 funding extension to the primary-care recruitment and retention program, funded through the city-funded London Economic Development Corp. (LEDC) reserve […]
The task force is looking for renewed support for a program that attracted six primary-care physicians last year and has a line on 15 more
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A London surgeon has resigned from practising medicine in Ontario and ordered to pay $6,000 in legal costs to the regulator after treating three patients who were family members or close friends. The Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal, the disciplinary arm of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, found Robert Richards […]
More than 100 people braved blowing snow and frigid temperatures Saturday morning for the chance to sign up for a family doctor in London, a city with 71,000 people who don’t have one. As of 9:05 a.m., five minutes after doors opened to Grow Family Health at 320 Adelaide St. S., dozens of people were […]
LFP reporter Jane Sims visited the four London ridings on Thursday morning to ask citizens who they voted for in the Ontario election, and why? Here are their answers LONDON-FANSHAWE On the ballot: Teresa Armstrong (NDP)*; Dave Durnin (Freedom Party); Kevin May (Liberal); Alan John McDonald (Independent); Wil Osbourne-Sorrell (Green); Peter Vanderley (Progressive Conservatives); Christopher […]