BOARD: Ontario improving access to health care, May 11, 2009
BOARD: Tina Perlman - Chair, Ontario's Pharmacists' Association
"The current legislation does limit pharmacists to a certain extent. For example, we train patients on the use of blood-glucose monitors on a regular basis today, yet we're not able to pierce the skin to provide a blood sample."
"These new regulations that are being proposed and the changes in them, will allow pharmacists to practice more favourably to help the public in Ontario."
BOARD: Dalton McGuinty - Premier of Ontario
"Today I am pleased to announce changes to the Health Professions Act. These changes will increase the scope of practice or a number of our regulated professions. It won't mean 'one stop care,' but it will mean fewer stops."
BOARD: Dr. Joshua Tepper - Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Human Resources and Strategy Planning
"Anybody who is working within the health care team is really going to see an opportunity to benefit from an improvement in the system: Nurse Practitioners, Physiotherapists, Pharmacists, Medical Radiation Technicians, Midwives, and the list goes on."
BOARD: David Caplan - Minister of Health and Long-Term Care
"Our health care professionals can do more. They want to do more, and we know that patients also want greater access and faster access. So, we'll be amending the act to broaden those scope of practice and to broaden the abilities of health professionals to be able to do more within the education and training that they have."
(Tina Perlman)
"By utilizing the skills of all the various health professionals that we have in Ontario, we expand the scope of all of these health professionals and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the health care system in Ontario."
BOARD: For more information visit: Ontario.ca/health