Posted: Apr 22, 2021 9:07 PM AT | Last Updated: April 23
Through the virtual care program, Islanders are able to consult with a doctor via text, phone, or video conference. It s all done through an online platform, created by telehealth provider Maple. (Steve Bruce/CBC)
The P.E.I. government provided media with copies of its contract with a private telehealth service provider Thursday, as the Official Opposition opened a new front in an ongoing battle over the private delivery of health care.
That contract is a software services agreement with Maple Corporation to provide the platform for virtual appointments with family doctors as part of a pilot program that began in August.
Premier agrees to consult unions on mobile mental health units, says P E I Nurses Union
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Still no plan to move dementia patients out of psychiatric ward, says Liberal MLA
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Posted: Mar 12, 2021 5:50 PM AT | Last Updated: March 12 comments
Liberal Sonny Gallant, top left, and Opposition leader Peter Bevan-Baker, bottom left, peppered Premier Dennis King, top right, and Health Minister Ernie Hudson, lower right, with questions about what they called government s privatization of mobile mental-health units. (P.E.I. Legislative Assembly)
A controversial change to the way the Prince Edward Island government plans to run a long-awaited mobile mental-health crisis service dominated question period in the provincial legislature Friday.
The province plans to have three mobile units one based in each of P.E.I. s counties able to respond to people experiencing a mental health crisis, along with a 24-hour phone line as a first point of contact for those in distress. The units will operate 12 hours a day, from noon until midnight, and are to be staffed by a mental health professional, a plain-clothes police officer and a paramedic.
P.E.I. pharmacists can now diagnose and treat simple urinary tract infections for free
Pharmacists on Prince Edward Island can now test for and treat uncomplicated urinary tract infections for free, Health Minister Ernie Hudson announced in the legislature Thursday.
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Posted: Mar 11, 2021 5:41 PM AT | Last Updated: March 11
Pharmacists have actually been permitted by the province to assess and treat UTIs since October 2020, but effective April 1, the province will cover the service, so it is free of charge to Islanders. (Nicole Williams/CBC)