P.E.I. needs to move faster to open more patient medical homes in order to get more Islanders the front-line health care they need, says Health P.E.I.'s chief medical officer.
After learning their doctor is closing his practice due to what he labeled an 'increasingly challenging' health-care system, patients of Dr. Hal McRae are calling on the P.E.I. government to step up and fix the problems.
The P.E.I. government is taking positive steps to ensure the province has the health care professionals it needs, says Health Minister Ernie Hudson in the wake of the resignation of Health P.E.I. board chair Derek Key.
P.E.I.’s Minister of Health Ernie Hudson told the legislature Tuesday a bill he had said would make it easier to recruit doctors won’t be called for debate this sitting, over concerns about how it could affect health care in rural communities.