Action Alert: Use community care providers to ramp up vaccinations!

Ontario’s vaccination roll-out has stumbled out of the gate. Please take a moment to set things right. Join us in urging Premier Doug Ford to start Phase 2 of the roll-out by putting vaccinations into the hands of the thousands of nurses, physicians and pharmacists working in community care across this province. By making use of existing community care providers and their existing infrastructure, the vaccination roll-out can be accelerated across Ontario.

There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Every year, thousands of nurses, physicians and pharmacists provide routine vaccinations through public health and established networks including primary care, pharmacies and home care. These community-based infrastructures and their health-care professionals, using tried and true distribution systems for vaccination, must be put to work to deliver what is urgently needed – COVID-19 vaccinations.

Let’s leave hospitals to do what hospitals are meant to do – provide acute care. And let’s allow public health and community care do what they do best – prevent illness and protect health in the community.

It’s been a long, long year. We need to get this vaccination roll-out right. Call on the premier to put community providers – nurses, physicians and pharmacists - to work vaccinating their communities.

Sign our Action Alert and make your voice heard!

Copy will be sent to the following:

Hon. Doug Ford
premier of Ontario and provincial minister of intergovernmental affairs
Hon.
Christine Elliott
Minister of Health, Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
Andrea Horwath
Ontario New Democratic Party, MPP
France Gélinas
MPP and Ontario New Democratic Party health critic
Steven Del Duca
John Fraser
interim party leader of the Ontario Liberal Party and MPP for Ottawa South
Mike Schreiner
MPP and leader of the Green Party of Ontario
Your local MPP