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‘Fixing’ emergency department wait times starts with investing in a strong primary care system
Friday, June 24th, 2022
Access to timely health care is predicated on a robust primary care system that is adequately staffed and supported. As a provider who has experienced the pressures faced by both the primary and acute care settings, it is clear that investing in team-based primary care and prioritizing access to family physicians is a necessary priority to address the crisis in our emergency departments.
Tags: featured, Health, mental Health
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On a mission to save seniors from nursing home horrors
Friday, June 17th, 2022
… there “is no magic bullet” or “a one-size-fits-all solution,” she sees the potential benefits of PSW-owned co-ops. “This is one among multiple solutions we’ll be able to put in place,” she says. “I’m a fan of aging in place, providing options for seniors to avoid going into long-term care, but let’s not forget that it is still required. At some point, people will need long-term care facilities. But we need to provide other options to delay the time where they have to go into an LTC.”
Tags: Health, housing, mental Health, Seniors, standard of living
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New website aims to improve access to counselling services
Friday, June 17th, 2022
Family Service Ontario, with the help of Caredove, an Orillia-based software company, has launched the Ontario Counselling Finder website using Caredove’s WebBuilder, where members of the public can enter their home address to find the nearest Family Service Ontario member agency. Member agencies can optionally allow the public to request an intake appointment through the secure e-referral platform… “Our hope is to increase awareness that these services are available, and to reduce the barriers in accessing them,”
Tags: jurisdiction, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation
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B.C. and Ottawa are showing leadership in fighting the scourge of drug overdoses
Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
The exemption, which is authorized by the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, will decriminalize possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy. Toronto has applied for a similar exemption, and the feds ought to approve it now… there’s abundant evidence that drug prohibition has little effect on how many people use drugs but plays a significant role in making an already risky activity even riskier.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical
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Feds rightly cautious about provincial demands for unconditional health funding
Wednesday, June 1st, 2022
“Trudeau is correct to avoid what may amount to cutting a blank cheque to provinces if he cannot ensure that the money will deliver improvements to existing public health care and expanding public health care to much needed long-term care and universal pharmacare.” … More than eight out of every ten dollars provided in Canada to fight COVID-19 and support Canadians has been provided by the federal government…
Tags: budget, featured, Health, jurisdiction
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Ontario needs a government that will legislate health, not poverty
Sunday, May 29th, 2022
Low social assistance rates are not just legislated poverty — they are legislated destitution, and legislated poor health. Research has shown poor health is a direct consequence of living in poverty. These policy choices do not save us money — in fact, they provide people like us — legal aid lawyers and doctors — with a steady stream of business, paid for out of other pockets of the public purse. This election, none of the three major parties are offering enough to people living in deep poverty.
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, Health, housing, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario election gives voters the chance to choose people over profits in long-term care
Friday, May 27th, 2022
If… government replicates past decisions, more than 65,000 Ontarians a year will live in a for-profit facility — many run by corporations focused on their real estate investments — in the next decade. If we follow a different path, these subsidies could fund operators that are primarily care organizations and where real estate holdings support the care, not the other way around.
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, Health, housing, ideology, privatization, Seniors, standard of living
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Ontario health spending will be too low if the 2022 budget is passed
Friday, May 20th, 2022
For every $1.00 the 2022 budget plans to spend on health care program spending (i.e., care) over the period 2022-23 to 2024-25, the government plans to spend $1.80 on health capital (construction). To truly improve access to care, Ontario needs to rebuild the health care workforce. The first step in that process is repealing Bill 124… limiting compensation increases to 1% is punishing the health care workers that we have depended on for the last two years
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living, women
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Canada’s premiers are missing a real chance to fix our ailing health-care system
Monday, May 16th, 2022
… unless and until the premiers agree to set out… how they intend to spend and report on the 62 per cent increase in transfers they are demanding to actually bring about real change in their respective health systems, Ottawa should refuse. And Canadians themselves should just say no.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Canadians want it, doctors want it, so let’s get pharmacare done
Thursday, May 12th, 2022
Canadians should be appalled by how much time is spent every day by doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others working around the lack of real drug coverage in Canada… As stated in the petition, Philpott and Martin call for advancing the timing and scope of Canada’s plans – starting with universal, public coverage of essential medications before the end of 2022. Meanwhile, the government has promised to pass a Canada Pharmacare Act in 2023…
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, poverty, standard of living
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