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Are Ontario Health Teams designed for failure?

Wednesday, September 4th, 2019

The ministry has left it to the teams to describe how OHT’s will plan and decide on regional service delivery. There is no requirement for community or patient/family engagement in service planning… Rather than community integration led by public demand for services in mental health or community care, OHT’s seem at risk for becoming hospital-driven organizations, where the strength of the hospital board governs decisions in the region.

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State of emergency, Part 1: How to fix Ontario ERs? We ask a paramedic

Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

Once an ambulance loads a patient, the paramedic crew becomes responsible for that patient’s care, and they remain solely responsible for that patient until they are admitted by the ER. Non-urgent patients then wait on stretchers under the watchful gaze of well-trained paramedics, who are legally compelled to remain with them no matter how long it takes. Paramedic crews, and their valuable ambulances, can sit idle for many hours.

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Health Minister Christine Elliott promises transparency in new health care system

Saturday, August 10th, 2019

Once… Ontario Health is fully making the decisions on all aspects of those issues that were dealt with by the LHINs before, then they will be having public meetings.”… the Ontario Health Teams — alliances of local health providers that will oversee most aspects of health care within their jurisdictions — will be required to hold public meetings and publicly post minutes.

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Early interventions needed in mental health care

Friday, August 9th, 2019

… funding has fallen by over 50 per cent over the past 25 years at a time when demand is exploding. Without political intervention, the gap between demand and supply will continue to grow. To counter this shortage of care, we need more practitioners… Interprofessional care teams are more efficient and allow our most specialized and expensive interventions to be matched to patients with the most significant needs.

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OMA should stop fear-mongering on nurse practitioners

Thursday, August 8th, 2019

They provide top-quality health care for tens of thousands of people without a family doctor; they free up doctors to focus on serious illnesses; and they stretch the province’s healthcare dollars… if we are to improve the quality and sustainability of our healthcare system. It’s time the OMA started to actively support nurse practitioners – and ended its self-serving “turf wars.”

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New Weapons Against Cancer: Millions of Bacteria Programmed to Kill

Sunday, July 21st, 2019

Scientists have used genetically reprogrammed bacteria to destroy tumors in mice. The innovative method one day may lead to cancer therapies that treat the disease more precisely, without the side effects of conventional drugs… an additional benefit. After they killed off one tumor with bacteria, other tumors in the mice also shrank. It is possible that the bacteria helped the immune system learn to recognize other cancer cells.

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Ontario wants to expand midwives’ ability to prescribe medications

Tuesday, July 9th, 2019

Ontario wants to give midwives across the province the ability to prescribe a wider variety medications, a move those in the profession say could help improve patient care. Health Minister Christine Elliott said Monday that consultations are underway to expand midwives’ scope of practice with the body that regulates the profession. She said the province wants to enable midwives to use their education and training more effectively.

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Overview of the Second Report of the Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine: Part I

Friday, July 5th, 2019

This advice is responsive to certain of the issues raised by the First Report, including the Council’s finding that Ontario’s health care system is not working to its potential. Among the advice offered by the Council through the Report is a list of 10 recommendations to improve health care… grouped into the following four categories: Integration / Innovation / Efficiency & Alignment / Capacity

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Ontario health minister’s ‘modernization’ plan: cut now, figure out the details later

Friday, May 24th, 2019

They’ll scold the city for being a free-spending bastion of lefties. They’ll complain about the deficit their predecessors ran up. But they will not commit to continuing to fully fund the programs they claim to want to continue and improve… At some point taxes will have to be raised, or programs will have to be cut. Despite what Elliott says, it appears those are the choices. Not good ones. But soon necessary.

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Health units worried about province’s plans to consolidate 35 agencies into 10

Monday, May 20th, 2019

The planned transformation comes as the government lowers its public health spending, requiring municipalities to contribute millions more to their health budgets than anticipated. By 2021-2022, the provincial cut is expected to be $200 million annually… The consolidation will nonetheless mean that health units will have to serve larger geographic regions, which include communities with different needs.

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