Primary care: News and podcasts

Exploring how the CIHI Hospital Frailty Risk Measure is used by Canada’s health system partners to understand populations at risk for frailty and support frailty care service planning.

A mother and her seriously ill son travel from Nunavut to Ottawa to a special clinic set up to meet the needs of Inuit families accessing medical care.

In this episode, host Alya Niang chats with a doctor who delves into diabetes and limb amputation, and safer management of diabetic foot disease.

Media release highlights recent data on changes in Canada’s health workforce including family physicians and other primary care providers.

In this episode of the CHIP, host Avis Favaro chats with a man who lost his foot to diabetes and a doctor whose new treatment offers hope to those faced with losing a limb to the disease.

​This media release highlights CIHI’s new report Taking the pulse: Measuring shared priorities for Canadian health care, 2024

In this episode of the CHIP, guest host Jeanie Lacroix speaks with Dr. Marcel Émond, certified emergency physician at the level-1 trauma centre of the CHU de Québec — Hôpital de l’Enfant-Jésus, about the risks of frailty.

On this episode of the CHIP, host Avis Favaro speaks with Dr. Kenneth Rockwood, clinical research professor of frailty and aging at Dalhousie University, about the risks of frailty.

In this episode of the CHIP, we discuss hospital harm and the overwhelming workload of health care workers across Canada.

In this episode of the CHIP, host Alya Niang speaks with Dr. Jennifer Zelmer and Flavie Laliberté about what a recent major funding agreement will mean for average people in Canada using our health care systems.