By Kimberly De Jong Local Journalism Initiative Reorter City of Brantford Council received the Community Physician Recruitment Program 2024 and 2025 Action Plan during its Committee of the Whole, Planning and Administration meeting on Tuesday, November 12, 2024. At the recommendation of the Community Health Care Task Force, the Physician Recruitment Committee, which was first created in 2001 after the catchment area known as “Brant,” which includes Brantford, County of Brant and Six Nations of the Grand River, was designated as an “underserviced area” by the provincial government. Since 2002, the City of Brantford has supported Community Physician Recruitment with an annual financial allocation and each year, an agreement is executed between the parties outlining the amount of funding and its intended purpose. The Physician Recruitment Committee has received an…