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Hosted by Dr. Tara Kiran · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 21 episodes
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Patients, politicians and clinicians agree: it’s high time to fix primary care in Canada. But, what could a stronger, more inclusive, more efficient public system look like? In this smart, engaging podcast, family doc and researcher Dr. Tara Kiran brings together the voices of frontline healthcare workers, patients, researchers and policymakers from around the world to unpack the issues and innovations that could—and should—transform primary care in Canada.With a focus on actionable insights and real-world solutions, episodes will take you behind the scenes to understand how different health systems and clinics are solving access problems, stretching healthcare dollars and ensuring quality care for all. At the heart of each conversation is a shared commitment to a better public healthcare system—one that not only serves every person in Canada, but leads the world. primaryfocus.substack.com
Dr. Tara Kiran hosts Primary Focus with Dr. Tara Kiran, a health show with 21 episodes published.
Imagine living in a country where no resident struggles to access primary care. There are no wait lists. Everyone can be seen at the local health centre, even if they haven’t registered in advance. In this episode, Dr. T
More than 5.8 million adults in Canada don't have a regular family doctor, nurse practitioner or primary care clinic--and where you live has a lot to do with whether you're one of them. To make sense of the newest resear
In this episode, Dr. Tara Kiran travels to Durham, Ontario, to visit the Durham Community Health Centre, where CEO Francis Garwe leads a team rethinking what primary care can look like when it is truly rooted in communit
In this episode, Dr. Tara Kiran travels to Vancouver, British Columbia, to visit the Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-op Clinic — a clinic built by and for newcomer communities. Umbrella pairs physicians and nurse practi
In this episode, Tara speaks with Dr. Nicole Boutilier, Executive Vice President of Medicine and Clinical Operations at the Nova Scotia Health Authority — a family doctor leading primary care transformation from within t
In Part Two of our Costa Rica series, Dr. Tara Kiran takes you inside an EBAIS (Equipos Básicos de Atención Integral de Salud) clinic on the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica to see what it actually looks like to deliver pr
This episode is the first in a two-part series on the primary care system in Costa Rica. Dr.Tara Kiran sits down with Dr. Madeline Pesec, an internal medicine physician and pediatrician, to explore Costa Rica’s ambitious
In this episode, we take you to Saint-Hyacinthe to see how a team in Quebec is transforming timely access to primary care. Quebec has more interprofessional primary care teams than anywhere else in Canada — yet it remain
In this episode of Primary Focus, Dr. Tara Kiran travels to Renfrew County, Ontario, where an innovative team is tackling the family doctor shortage with a new kind of hybrid care - where your doctor is virtual, but your
This season, we’re diving into innovative primary care practices across Canada—starting in Alberta, where one family practice is making timely, high-quality care a reality for more than 25,000 patients within a fully cap
As Canada faces a family doctor shortage, Tara calls up her friend Dr. Ruth Lavergne, a primary care researcher at Dalhousie University, to ask how we ended up an estimated 23,000 doctors short — despite training more in
In this special episode, host Dr. Tara Kiran reflects on the passage of Ontario’s new Primary Care Act—the first legislation of its kind in Canada. Joined by Peter MacLeod, founder of MASS LBP and co-lead of the OurCare
How do you design a system that delivers timely primary care — not by chance, but by design? In this final episode in the Netherlands, Tara visits a health insurance company and reflects with her travel companion, Rosema
Emergency departments in Canada are overcrowded — but what if they didn’t have to be? In Part Three of her audio documentary series from the Netherlands, Dr. Tara Kiran takes listeners behind the scenes at two Dutch afte
Why are Dutch GPs called “huisarts” — house doctors? In Part Two of her visit to a Nijmegen clinic, Dr. Tara Kiran talks with Dr. Suzanne Ligthart about the Dutch tradition of home visits. She then meets Kris Arts, a pra
How is it that 99% of people in the Netherlands have access to primary care? How can Dutch doctors look after large numbers of patients while still providing primary care? Those are some of the questions Dr. Kiran is set
What if getting a family doctor was as simple as enrolling your child in your local public school? Dr. Rita McCracken joins Dr. Tara Kiran to explore what primary care can learn from public education. They unpack why hea
Join Dr. Tara Kiran as she learns about how the Northern Connections Medical Centre in Winnipeg is revolutionizing primary care for Indigenous communities. Dr. Kiran tours the facility and interviews Dr. Mandy Buss, who
Join Dr. Tara Kiran as she explores just how bad the primary care crisis is in Canada and the history of exactly how we got here. To do that, she phones her friend (and boss), Dr. Danielle Martin, to dissect the foundati
Why do 6.5 million people in Canada lack a family doctor or access to primary care—and what can be done about it? In this podcast, Dr. Tara Kiran unpacks the root causes of Canada’s primary care crisis and, more importan
Dr. Danielle Martin
Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine · The Smart Business Consultant
1 appearance on this show
Kelly Grant
The Globe and Mail
1 appearance on this show
Francis Garwe
Durham Community Health Centre
1 appearance on this show
Naomi Armstrong
Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-op Clinic
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Nicole Boutilier
Nova Scotia Health Authority
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Jonathan Fitzsimon
Petawawa Centennial Family Health Centre
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Ruth Lavergne
Dalhousie University
1 appearance on this show
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