More people have come forward with concerns about a lack of communication from the Appletree chain of clinics in Ottawa when patients became attached to family doctors with little notice or no follow-up.
CBC News recently published a story about a woman who said she was kicked off Health Care Connect — Ontario’s family doctor wait-list — after visiting an Appletree clinic as a walk-in patient.
The Ontario Ministry of Health told CBC at the time it was aware of two occasions over the past two years where Appletree rostered patients without those individuals being made aware.
CBC has since heard from nearly
