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Media Releases
2008 Headlines | |
| Ontario’s Doctors Discouraged by Provincial Health Care Spending Ontario Medical Association raises concerns over expansion of nurse practitioner clinics . | November 11 |
| Doctors Welcome Bill to Make Roads Safer OMA’s road safety prescription heeded in bill to ban use of hand held devices for drivers. | October 28 |
| Doctors Vote in Support of New Agreement with Province The elected governing Council of the OMA has voted to ratify a new contract with the provincial government. | October 18 |
| Toronto Trails Festival VI The Toronto Trails Festival VI has kicked off its sixth year with the greatest series yet of free guided walks. | September 28 |
| OMA takes issue with comments from NDP Health Critic The Ontario Medical Association (OMA) is disappointed with comments made in an NDP news release | September 19 |
| Cellphones and Driving Don`t Mix Doctor's prescribe action to limit cellphone use while driving | September 14 |
| Doctor Shortage Threatening the Economic Well-Being of our Communities Doctors receive support from municipal leaders | August 26 |
| Mixed smog messaging confuses patients: Ontario's Doctors OMA re-launches its Smog-Wise advice to clear the air | August 22 |
| Doctors Point to Poverty as Major Cause of Illness A new report by a group of Ontario doctors highlights the ways in which poverty affects the health outcomes of adults and children | July 29 |
| Evidence shows more doctors key to better health care There are few things more comforting than knowing that when you are sick a highly trained doctor will be there to care for you | July 2 |
| Study Reveals Impact of Not having a Primary Care Physician A new report from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) reveals that not having a family doctor leads to more emergency room visits and hospital admissions | July 2 |
| Finding a family doctor - OMA Op-Ed It's no secret Ontario continues to experience a doctor shortage. The good news is doctors have been working harder than ever | June 13 |
| OMA Statement: OMA welcomes new legislative and regulatory initiatives to reduce barriers to recruit doctors educated outside Ontario. | June 10 |
| Ontario’s Doctors: Thousands of Premature Deaths due to Smog Alarming new report shows smog is responsible for 9,500 deaths in the province each year | June 6 |
| Local Premature Smog Deaths in Ontario | June 6 |
| We Need More Doctors - OMA Letter to the Editor | May 24 |
| Ontario’s Doctors Take on almost 630,000 New Patients More patients have access to care, more surgeries performed, but Ontario still short 2,500 doctors | May 15 |
| New OMA President Sets Recruitment and Retention as Priorities for Year Points to predicted U.S. shortage as reason to remain vigilant | May 4 |
| Ontario's Doctors and Heart and Stroke Foundation Partner to Protect Children New education campaign to increase awareness about protecting kids from second-hand smoke in cars | April 14 |
| Medicine: science meets art - OMA Letter to the Editor | April 4 |
| Family health teams a better way - OMA Letter to the Editor | April 3 |
| Backgrounder - Tobacco Smoke Concentrations in Cars | March |
| Ontario’s Doctors Applaud Provincial Government’s Ban on Smoking in Cars
With Children New legislation will protect children from second-hand smoke | March 5 |
| Ontario Doctors Welcome Premier's Support to Ban Smoking in Cars with Children Over 50 municipalities in the province have also called for a province-wide ban | February 26 |
| New Evidence Shows Vehicles Most Dangerous Space for Second-Hand Smoke Levels Children can be exposed to 60 times the concentration of second-hand smoke in cars than indoors | Febraury 15 |
| OMA seeks law reform on reporting unfit drivers - OMA Letter to the Editor | February 14 |
| New strategies needed for health care system - OMA Letter to the Editor | January 28 |
| Build on team-based model - OMA Letter to the Editor | January 22 |
| Ontario Doctors Call on Province to Improve Access to Medication to Help Smokers Quit GST should be cut from cessation medicines and they should be covered under the Ontario Drug Benefit Plan | January 18 |
2007 Headlines | |
| Ontario’s Doctors Applaud Move to Reduce Junk Food in Schools Nutrient poor foods should be removed from schools to combat childhood obesity rates | December 5 |
| Ontario’s doctors give a day’s pay for AIDS Doctors go beyond the medicine bag to help international cause | November 30 |
| Time for Ontario to Act to Protect Children's Health Doctors call on province to follow municipal lead in banning smoking in cars with kids. | November 28 |
| Number of Doctors Leaving Ontario More than Triples since 2005 Immediate action needed to make Ontario more competitive with other provinces | November 8 |
| Ont. Doctors Applaud Schwarzenegger saying “Hasta la vista” to Smoking in Cars with Kids California most recent jurisdiction to ban smoking in cars transporting children | October 14 |
| Fixing Doctor Shortage Must Be Top Priority for Provincial Government Ontario needs to be attractive and competitive as Canadian and U.S. doctor shortage grows. | October 11 |
| OMA President Starts Province-Wide Tour As Election Begins Ontario doctors share health care concerns with local leaders and MPP candidates. | September 13 |
| Ontario Doctors Launch Pre-Election Campaign Plan calls for focus on 4 key priorities – including a focus on health of kids. | September 4 |
| Doctors Offer Smog-Wise Health Tips 2007 has record-high number of poor-air days to date | June 26 |
| Smoke-Free Act Must Be Expanded to Protect Children
from Second-Hand Smoke Many children are still at risk for exposure to second-hand smoke in homes and cars. | May 30 |
| Danger Pay Deserved If Pandemic Strikes - OMA Letter to the Editor | May 18 |
| Ontario Med Students and Residents Call for Programs Available
in Other Provinces Ontario falling behind several other provinces in Canada that have implemented interest deferral plans to ensure medical school accessibility | April 23 |
| OMA Statement in Support of Bill 67, the Organ and Tissue Donation Mandatory Declaration Act The Ontario Medical Association (OMA) strongly supports increased awareness and education to improve organ donation rates in the province of Ontario. | April 19 |
| Ontario’s Doctors Launch 6 Principles to Guide Health Change On behalf of Ontario’s doctors, the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) today released the “Six Principles of Healthier Care,” to serve as measure against which future health decisions can be assessed. | March 26 |
| Doctors Applaud Commitment to Expand Wait Time Strategy Ontario doctors support commitments made in the 2007 Ontario Budget to include pediatric surgeries in the provincial Wait Time Strategy (WTS), and the commitment to measure the wait time for all general surgeries. Doctors remain concerned however, about the number of people – especially children – without access to a family doctor. According to the Ontario Medical Association (OMA), Ontario is short 2,000 doctors affecting one million patients (18+) and 130,000 children. | March 22 |
| Provincial Wait time Announcement Ontario doctors applaud the provincial government and the Minister of Health for moving forward to make improvements to the provincial Wait Time Strategy (WTS). | March 15 |
| OMA: Retention Must be New Priority – Doctors Still Leaving Ontario and 2,500 Near Retirement A comprehensive report released today by the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) reveals a reduction in the number of patients in the province without a doctor for the first time in more than five years. While there are positive trends in many areas, the report highlights the presence of an aging physician cohort and an on going departure of physicians to other provinces. Ontario lost 188 doctors to other Canadian jurisdictions – a 24 percent increase since 2003 – resulting in the first net inter-provincial loss of physicians from Ontario in recent memory. | February 27 |
| Ontario Doctors Applaud Measures to Increase Physician Supply: Ontario's doctors welcomed the announcement today by the provincial government to invite American-based Ontario-licensed physicians back to Ontario, and to increase the number of specialist residency training spaces. | February 25 |
| Statement to the Media: Resident Awareness Day Today, on Resident Awareness Day, it is important that we recognise the achievements of a large and very important group of physicians. Residents are Ontario's most recently graduated physicians, the physicians who will be caring for Ontarians in the years and decades ahead. | February 19 |
| Ontario Doctors Call For Changes to Provincial Wait Times Strategy A new survey of Ontario doctors found that while the provincial Wait Times Strategy (WTS) is having a positive impact on targeted surgeries, those areas which do not fall within the WTS are being negatively impacted, forcing patients to wait longer. | February 14 |
| Ontario Should Act to Protect Children from Second-Hand Smoke Ontario’s doctors are urging the provincial government to follow in the footsteps of the recent decision in Bangor, Maine to ban smoking in vehicles transporting children. The 2004 OMA report entitled “Exposure to second-hand smoke: are we protecting our kids?” revealed that children continue to be at risk as a result of exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) in homes and vehicles. | January 31 |
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