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Ontario must regulate rehab centres to protect the public
Just about anyone can declare themselves an addiction treatment expert in Ontario today and provide therapy to vulnerable people battling substance abuse. It’s a wide open system that leaves the public in danger of being exploited… Ontario’s health ministry insists there is currently no regulation under consideration for private rehab centres or addiction counsellors.
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Government still lets nursing homes improperly drug seniors
… nursing homes too often use antipsychotic drugs as “chemical straitjackets” to keep their residents docile. The good news from this study is that 56 nursing homes were persuaded to do something they should have done anyway: review the medication prescribed their clients to make sure it was appropriate. The bad news is that provincial governments — including Ontario’s — aren’t requiring them to do so.
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, rights, standard of living
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Ontario opens access to more stem-cell transplants
The minister, among other things, has committed to: Expanding access for stem cell therapy treatment, in Ontario and out of country, where clinically recommended, to leukemia patients who are not in complete remission after chemotherapy. Opening a second stem cell transplant centre in Greater Toronto… Streamlining the convoluted referral process for patients sent out of country… Creating a ministerial task force to provide the government with “immediate and ongoing advice.”
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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Doctor pay should be fair for all: Eric Hoskins
Ontario’s doctors are the best paid in Canada — and we make no apology for that. They deserve to be well compensated… [But] many specialists make three or four times what the average family doctor makes — and sometimes much more… Spending more and more on those highest-billing doctors means we can’t invest as much as we would like to in other patient priorities like hospitals, home care and mental health supports.
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The $6.6-million doctor distorts Ontario’s pay battle
The problem with binding arbitration is that while it will resolve a short-term monetary dispute, it will perpetuate the current flawed physician payment model… there needs to be a fundamental rethink of how doctors are paid – not a reduction in overall fees, but a recalibration. That has to be negotiated and implemented over time. Nobody is benefiting from the current stalemate.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Ontario doctors’ pay must be negotiated, not imposed
Across-the-board cuts are ham-fisted, ineffective and unfair. That’s because some doctors (like ophthalmologists) are grossly overpaid and some (like pediatricians and family docs) are underpaid. The OMA refuses to address these inequities within the profession, due to its paralyzingly complex internal politics… Part of that reform needs to be a fundamental rethink of how we pay doctors… with open minds and a willingness to do major surgery, not apply more Band-Aid solutions.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, standard of living
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Health workers deserve pay raise
… how can the CCACs justify giving their own senior employees whopping raises while telling private companies contracted by them to actually treat patients at home that the CCACs are cash-strapped and can’t afford to increase the rates they pay for each patient visit — for 10 years in a row? … The CCACs’ refusal to increase the per-visit rates they pay to private service providers comes despite the government’s continued commitment to boost home-care funding.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Fear and loathing stalk health-care reform
The reform package, expected to be presented to cabinet in April and then tabled in the legislature in May, is intended to improve dramatically how patients are handled from the moment they first need treatment until the day they no longer require services at home or in their community. At the heart of the reform package is a dramatic reorganization of the home-care system.
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Release Devastating Hospital Cuts & Flawed Process for Health Reform Consultation
The Ontario Health Coalition is calling for a formal, on-the-record, proper consultation on the proposed health reform plans with adequate time for Ontarians to give meaningful input before legislation is introduced. The Coalition is also calling for Ontario’s government to restore hospital funding levels to at least the average of the rest of Canada to stop the cuts and privatization of our vital local hospital services.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living, women
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How Big Pharma markets its profitable drugs
Simply put, Big Pharma markets its drugs through doctors… A task force created by the College acknowledged that the drug industry’s interests are ‘not always aligned with the best interests’ of family doctors or their patients.” … Pharmacare… represents major reform with the potential to positively influence pharmaceutical manufacturers by forcing them to provide stronger evidence of the therapeutic value of their products relative to existing ones. But absent fundamental changes in the way pharmaceutical research is rewarded, shared, and scrutinized, any new formulary will be a half measure.”
Tags: budget, Health, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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