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In December 2024, the Ontario government announced legislation that would introduce the NP clinical director role in long-term care. Clinical directors oversee and evaluate residents’ overall care and help identify and address health-care issues related to quality of life.

On Jan. 10, the Federal Minister of Health Mark Holland issued a letter to provincial and territorial ministers of health to confirm a Canada Health Act policy requiring them to create a public funding model for NPs and other regulated health professionals by April 1, 2026.

The Children’s Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre is offering the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine to infants who do not have a family doctor. NP and RNAO member Erin Fleischer, who works in the clinic, says RSV can make children extremely sick.

As I reach the three-quarter mark of my first year as your president, I want to share what an absolute privilege and honour it has been to meet and engage with members. 

In a letter to the editor published before the release of the provincial budget on March 26, RNAO CEO Dr. Doris Grinspun takes aim at clinics that charge for health care and advises on how NPs and NP-led clinics must be fully covered by the province to ensure timely access to quality care by NPs.

RNAO NP members Hoda Mankal and Joanna Binch are ready to bring mental health and addiction care, as well as primary care, to Ottawa’s most vulnerable. They’re just waiting for funding approval from the province to open their NP-led clinic and get to work.

Johanna Leonhardt is the first NP at Quinte Health Care (QHC) to fill the role of 'most-responsible-provider' (MRP), a designation that means she is able to practise to her full scope (read more about RNAO’s NP Task Force report on sco