The province has established a task force to find ways of improving emergency room services in rural and northern Ontario hospitals.
Ministry of Health Spokesperson David Jenson says fourteen medical experts have been assembled to examine issues surround small E-R's and make recommendations back to the Ministry.
"It's certainly consultations that the Ministry has held," says Jenson, "and that have come through from stakeholders to identify the need to look at the systemic issues related to providing emergency services and that's what this task force is going to look at."
The group will present its recommendations to the Ministry next spring.
