The medical association wants assurances doctors won't be lured away from community practices to work with a new virtual service. Health Minister Tom Osborne says no doctors will be "poached" from community-based practices.
When Dawn Furey's mother Margaret O'Grady had a stroke earlier this year, her family moved her into a personal-care home she could afford. That changed two weeks ago, when she learned her monthly fee was going up more than $450.
Health Minister Tom Osborne said officials have “gone back to the drawing board” and will be reissuing a tender for an urgent-care clinic. Osborne says the plan is still to open the clinic in 2024.