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Ontario Minor Ailments
Pharmacists will be cleared to diagnose and treat minor ailments, such as skin rashes, by this time next year, taking pressure off doctors and hospital emergency rooms, Health Minister Christine Elliott says.
Widening their scope of practice — the previous Liberal government allowed them to administer flu shots and renew basic prescriptions — is the next stage in making health care easier to get with fewer hassles, Elliott said Friday at the grand opening of a new mental health emergency room at St. Joseph’s hospital on the Queensway