We recommend that the federal government: provide leadership and support for the development of fully integrated collaborative health care teams; provide leadership to ensure that all health care professionals are able to practice to their full scope, therefore addressing the shortage of primary care providers and allowing greater access for patients; provide leadership by funding initiatives to remove these barriers to truly collaborative, multidisciplinary, integrated care; and ensure health care professionals, such as NDs, have access to all the substances they require to treat patients safely and effectively--
On November 25th, 2009. See this statement in context.