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Colour-coded tags, volume-based performance indicators and a new target of taking on 500,000 additional patients are among the main changes planned for the revised version of Bill 2, which is set to take effect on Feb. 28.
Quebec’s Federation of General Practitioners and the Quebec government have reached an agreement in principle, the federation confirmed on social media.
Institutional pharmacists in Quebec say they are angry at the government’s inaction in negotiations to renew their labour agreement, and have voted 99 per cent in favour of a mandate to implement pressure tactics when they deem it appropriate.
Another medical clinic in Montreal has announced that it is closing its doors, in part, due to the Quebec government’s controversial doctor salary law.
After announcing its postponement in October, Santé Québec confirmed that the rollout of the Digital Health Record (DSN) will finally take place on May 9, 2026.
Quebec Premier François Legault is now banking on “financial benefits” to break the deadlock with doctors.
The number of Quebec doctors who have been granted permission to work in Ontario has exploded in the past month as negotiations drag on between the provincial government and doctors’ federations over controversial salary reform.
Quebec’s fertility rate fell to 1.33 children per woman in 2024, the lowest ever recorded in the province, according to a new report released by Quebec’s statistics institute, the Institut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ).
Just minutes after seeing headlines that talks between the doctors’ federation and the Quebec government have broken down, Dr. Cynthia Lauriault learned she lost her family doctor.
Quebec is reporting a new case of measles in the Montreal area, the first in the province since April.
Psychological distress among adolescents has reached an unprecedented level, according to the 2025 report from Tel-jeunes.
A shortage of obstetrician-gynecologists has led to the temporary closure of the maternity ward at a hospital on Montreal’s North Shore, which will redirect pregnant women to another hospital 23 kilometres away.
The Quebec College of Physicians (CMQ) fears that Bill 7 will lead to political interference that would undermine the scientific independence of public health organizations.
In resigning from the Carney cabinet Thursday, MP Steven Guilbeault wrote a three-page letter in which he says, among other things, that the Clean Electricity Regulations — which Alberta will no longer need to follow — have the potential to save lives. A medical association agrees.
Talks to renew Quebec’s labour agreement for hospital pharmacists have stalled. The pharmacists are calling on Ministers Christian Dubé and France-Élaine Duranceau to intervene to break the deadlock in discussions that have stopped moving forward.
It’s difficult in Quebec to get an initial consultation with a medical specialist, laments Acting Auditor General Alain Fortin.
