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Critical nursing shortage puts patients at risk
Saturday, December 30th, 2023
As the health care crisis rages unabated across the country, it is nurses who are holding our health systems together through grit, determination and a shocking amount of overtime… Fixing the nursing shortage is not just about adding more nurses to the system; it’s about addressing the conditions that have created this dire crisis… Relying on excessive overtime or costly private nurse agencies as short-term fixes only exacerbates the systemic challenges facing health care.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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As pediatric emergency rooms stretch to breaking, nurses have real solutions for health crisis
Monday, January 2nd, 2023
Provinces can legislate to reduce workloads by implementing safe nurse-to-patient ratios and make targeted investments in retention initiatives. The federal government should also be making direct investments to support return and recruitment initiatives, including mental health programming… Nurses are also recommending the federal government establish a collaborative health workforce council of provincial and territorial health ministries.
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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Overcrowding and overwork compromise health care
Saturday, August 25th, 2012
12 August 2012
Nurses know changes are needed. Hospitals across the country are at overcapacity. A generally accepted standard of safe hospital occupancy is 85 per cent yet most hospitals are working at a 100 per cent or higher. The results of overcrowding include compromised care, high rates of hospital acquired infections and unnecessary rates of hospital readmission. Another result is dangerous levels of workload, and the resulting vicious circle of working short.
Tags: budget, Health, standard of living
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Canada needs a new Health Accord to liberate health-care talent
Friday, August 10th, 2012
30 July 2012
The era of the omniscient independent practitioner is over… The practical question is whether the provinces will be able to clear the scope of practice gridlock entirely on their own, through multilateral consensus… If the public interest is to be served, there must be an honest broker to support and at times discipline the development of options, identify barriers to constructive change, invest in and sustain effort, and nudge the parties into a progressive consensus. That honest broker can only be the federal government…
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Rich-poor gap is making Canadians sick
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
July 15, 2012
The top determinants of health in order are income status, education, social support networks, employment and working conditions, early childhood development, physical environment, personal health practices and coping skills and biological and genetic factors. Access to health care is ninth as a determinant of health… By tackling each of the social determinants of health with intelligent public policy informed by evidence-based best practices, our governments will knock down Canada’s unconscionable poverty rates…
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Why medicare needs Ottawa
Monday, January 16th, 2012
Jan. 16, 2012
Writing cheques and walking away from the duty to improve medicare is not only a retrograde step that endangers health care and the economy, it also reveals a vision of an increasingly shrivelled and parochial federation, where governments look inward and the whole becomes a pastiche of increasingly isolated parts. Here are seven reasons why a strong federal presence in health care is vital to Canada:
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Shrinking Medicare, Expanding Poverty
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
April 21, 2011
In 1975, spending on hospitals and doctors – the core medicare services – accounted for 60% of total health spending. In 2010 the figure was 41%. Governments fund only half of all other types of care and have deinsured medically necessary services such as optometric visits. But the biggest and growing gap in the system is in the care of seniors: prescription drugs, home care, and long-term residential care, known as LTC… the system is stingy with inexpensive home care and more generous in providing expensive institutional care. It’s a classic lose-lose: worse for the person, and more costly for the public.
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, Health, ideology, poverty, privatization, standard of living
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