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Heath care will only succeed through collaboration, not through competition
Wednesday, April 19th, 2023
Competition is… what happens in the most dysfunctional parts of our Canadian health systems, where value for money is most elusive and frustration is highest… Service backlogs. Human resources shortages. Mental health impacts. The co-ordinated effort required to manage recovery will probably dwarf what we have just achieved. More competition and fragmentation is the last thing we need. Collaboration is our only hope.
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Supreme Court of Canada won’t hear appeal involving private health care
Thursday, April 6th, 2023
Two Vancouver private health facilities and four patients argued that provisions of the Medicare Protection Act violate their constitutional rights due to long waits for care in B.C.’s publicly funded system… Justice John Steeves said in the original court ruling that while long waits for care might increase the risk to some patients, the provisions were justified by the overall objective of supporting a system where access to health care is based on need, not the ability to pay.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization, rights
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An Ontario doctor’s wait-list database is saving patient lives. It’s madness a doctor had to do it himself
Saturday, March 25th, 2023
It’s a searchable database of specialists and procedures, by location and wait times. Yet by simply showing the full extent of available specialists in his community, this young family doctor vividly saw how access could be speeded up, reducing patient anguish and hardship… Qamar and his partners hope the province will see the database’s value and step in to fund the minimal costs of updating it.
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Making time for that vital “one more thing” in health care
Saturday, March 11th, 2023
Team-based care is one of four opportunities for innovation and transformation that Canada’s physicians are calling for… Ensuring doctors, nurses, and other health professionals can practise across Canada more easily will help… Next, let’s cut more red tape on data gathering and information sharing… Finally, doing better by health workers means integrated workforce planning on a national scale.
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Federal health minister dings Ontario for private billing
Saturday, March 11th, 2023
Federal health minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced Friday that he will be reducing the Canada Health Transfer to eight provinces, including Ontario, for breaches of federal policy regarding billing patients for medically necessary costs… Further, Duclos signalled that Friday’s announcement will not be the end of the measures the federal government is considering to reinforce the public aspect of Canada’s health-care system.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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The remedies for Ontario’s ailing health system
Monday, March 6th, 2023
… the quiet crisis of closed ERs in Ontario’s more remote communities should be another wake-up call. Beyond the ER crisis is the shortage of family doctors who would lighten that ER load… about 2.2 million Ontario residents were without a family doctor… The emphasis has been on creating primary-care teams… [but] about 75 per cent of family doctors function without such teams in place.
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New health care funding should open doors to family doctors
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
The college recommends primary care teams include nurses, who co-ordinate care and offer clinical support, and mental health workers, who provide psychological and addictions counselling and connect patients with social supports… the college also advises streamlining and centralizing the referral process for tests and specialists, and connecting electronic medical records with hospitals and home and community care.
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Province changing health-care status quo: MPP
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
… Your Health: A Plan for Convenient and Connected Care… lays out a broad series of initiatives that will provide the right care in the right place, deliver faster access to care and hire more health-care workers… the plan includes expanding the role of pharmacists… Youth Wellness Hubs; and expanding team-based care through Ontario Health Teams to better connect and co-ordinate people’s care within their own community.
Tags: Health, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Health care transformation is needed next
Monday, February 13th, 2023
… while [the provinces] have their hands extended to Ottawa. A majority of them are in surplus, or can see a surplus just over the horizon, but the provincial share of health funding has barely kept up with pandemic-era inflation… [Ford’s] Progressive Conservative government will have $12.5 billion in “excess funds” available over the next three years and is shortchanging health care by $5 billion.
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Centralized wait-lists work. So why isn’t Canada using them in health care across the country?
Friday, February 10th, 2023
Of course wait-list management isn’t all we need. At its best, it simply taps the potential of underutilized capacity in hospitals. We also need to stanch the hemorrhage of doctors and nurses out of publicly-funded care, and need a better spectrum of care to get people into and out of hospital more quickly. And we need more focus on keeping people out of hospital in the first place… It means better primary care through more interdisciplinary teams.
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