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Getting everyone a ‘front door into the health system’: Jane Philpott weighs in on fixing health care, and her future in politics

‘I feel that it is a fundamental responsibility of anyone who is an elected official... to collaborate with other orders of government to be able to make sure that health care works,’ says the former health minister.

Jane Philpott, the former federal health minister and current dean of health sciences at Queen's University, spoke to The Hill Times about how to fix Canada's ailing family health systems.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

April 24, 2024

Former federal health minister Jane Philpott has written a book about how to solve Canada’s family medicine problem. Titled, Health for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada, the work is Philpott’s call to arms to Canadians who are fed up with kitc...

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