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According to the 2025 OurCare National Survey (visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourcare.ca\/survey\" target=\"_blank\">ourcare.ca\/survey<\/a>), nearly 89 per cent of Manitobans report having a regular primary-care provider, such as a family doctor or nurse practitioner. In just two short years, Manitoba has gone from being among the worst provinces for primary-care access to the best.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m happy to share some encouraging news about health care here in Manitoba. A new national survey shows that our province now leads Canada in access to family doctors and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[],"education-subject":[],"media-literacy-topic":[],"post_topic":[],"content_type":[24],"class_list":["post-600017781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-correspondents","category-west"],"acf":{"short_title":"","seo_title":"","deck":"","story_tag":"","byline":"Uzoma Asagwara","updates":null},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"deck":"","byline":"Uzoma Asagwara","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600017781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600017781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600017781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600017781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600017781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600017781"},{"taxonomy":"education-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education-subject?post=600017781"},{"taxonomy":"media-literacy-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-literacy-topic?post=600017781"},{"taxonomy":"post_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_topic?post=600017781"},{"taxonomy":"content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_type?post=600017781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}