What is the province doing to get more doctors, more nurses? expanding medical school enrolment adding thousands of new nursing positions and hundreds of nurse practitioners providing more opportunities for foreign-trained doctors to practise Find out more about Primary Care in Ontario We're increasing enrolment in medical school by 30 per cent adding 160 new spaces for medical school students in the last three years graduating almost 700 new medical school students each year offering more incentives for doctors to practise in underserviced areas We're creating the first new Ontario medical school in thirty years aiming to open the doors of the new northern medical school in 2004 offering 56 new spaces for medical students with full campuses in Sudbury and Thunder Bay We're tripling the number of international physicians providing services in Ontario more than doubling the training spaces available to foreign-trained doctors to 50 from 24 introducing a new program to quickly assess 40 recently practising foreign-trained doctors developing more opportunities for these doctors that will see 650 new physicians practising over the next five years   Find out more about Physician Supply in Ontario We've added thousands of new nursing positions over the past four years funding more than 12,000 new nursing positions since 1997 We're involving more healthcare workers forming Family Health Networks where physicians work together to provide care 24 hours a day, seven days a week creating Telehealth, a 24-hour health service offering health advice and information from a registered nurse Adding hundreds more nurse practitioners placing more than 200 nurse practitioners in underserviced areas across the province promising to add 250 more nurse practitioners in the next three years funding the nurse practitioner education program Find out more about Nurses and Nurse Practitioners

Expect 369 new Nurse Practitioners in Ontario in the next three years. A Nurse Practitioner can help you by diagnosing and treating common illnesses, providing counselling and education and prescribing some types of medication. Once open in 2004, the Northern Ontario Medical School will admit 56 students a year. Between 1997 and 2000, $800 million was spent by the Ontario government to create 12,000 new nursing positions.