Public Health Ontario dissolved the independent voluntary science table in early September, with a new group under its watch set to first convene sometime in October
TORONTO — The burden of COVID-19 going forward will sit on the shoulders of primary care doctors and nurses if no new variant emerges, but the way that medical care is delivered must be reconsidered, Ontario's now-defunct science table said Monday in its final bit of advice to the province.
Other findings included unequal distribution of primary care access throughout the province, a dearth of data on that same care and major overall communication problems. "One of the biggest lessons that we found is that people who had a formal relationship with a primary care provider or team have had a better experience of care all through this pandemic," Martin said.She said the province needs to link as many Ontarians as possible, as soon as possible, to primary care.
"Otherwise it's going to be very hard for us to recover out of this pandemic in a way that doesn't completely cause collapse of our emergency departments and hospitals," Martin said. But there are some community-led initiatives that should be replicated and scaled up, the science table said, citing the Black Creek Community Health Centre in northwest Toronto as an example.
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