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What the rest of the country can learn from Ontario’s family doctor payment model
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023
The Canadian Medical Association has named “expanding team-based care” as one of its top recommendations for solving the country’s health care crisis… The most important lesson of Ontario’s primary-care reforms… is this: if a government is going to change the way it pays family doctors, and pay them more in the process, it needs to put clear and enforceable rules in its physician services agreement.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction
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10 ways to fix Canada’s health care system right now
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023
Canada’s health care system requires major reform and possibly radical solutions. Here are 10 solutions to these problems that might be achieved without having to resort to increased privatization… In this 10-part series, we will present 10 major problems that commonly arise within the Canadian medicare system.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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Doug Ford Led Ontario’s Health System Into a ‘State of Crisis’ in 2022
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023
PressProgress has repeatedly shown the efforts of Doug Ford’s government to cut healthcare funding and privatize parts of the system… Despite surging cases and reports of overwhelmed EDs, the Ford government’s 2022 Fall Fiscal Update offered no new healthcare funding… [however] the re-elected Progressive Conservatives pledged to help private healthcare companies find new ‘opportunities’ within the healthcare system.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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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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Looking forward into the past: Lessons for the future of Medicare on its 60th anniversary
Saturday, December 24th, 2022
The provincial government in Ontario operates a large network of not-for-profit community clinics… lacking explicit democratic co-operative control… it may be time for communities to… voice their desire in words and action for access to the kind of holistic care pioneered by the co-operative clinics. Maybe this time, policymakers will listen.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Canada’s health care system is stuck firmly in the past
Thursday, December 22nd, 2022
Canada needs to choose a bigger pan. We can expand the dimensions of what health care can provide through pan-Canadian licensure, a national health human resource plan, multijurisdictional data sharing, increased integration of virtual care and team-based care, and by reducing the administrative burden on providers. Any one of these changes could transform the health system, and each… necessitates change in the others.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Don’t blame family doctors for the current health care crisis
Tuesday, December 20th, 2022
… over the past decade, the number of family physicians has increased by almost a quarter. But working conditions have steadily deteriorated, and like us, many have moved into other areas of practice… we’ve long known that we need transformation of primary care systems, not just more money. Team-based models like Alberta’s Primary Care Networks and Ontario’s Family Health Teams must be supported and expanded…
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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Here is a health care to-do list for the federal government
Saturday, December 17th, 2022
The major question in the federal/provincial/territorial debate on health care funding should not be on whether there should be conditions but on what these conditions should be… with funding withheld or returned when these conditions are not met… Addressing health care means… moving on to how can we build a public health-care system that works across the country and for our populations in all their diversity.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Federal healthcare funding should have strings attached
Saturday, December 17th, 2022
Simply dumping health care dollars in provincial capitals is not a solution. Tossing money at Doug Ford, who has chosen license rebates and gas tax cuts (extended for another year) over more health spending is a particularly bad idea. It would offer a bandage when triage is required. Without a strategy and targets, there would be no assurance the extra federal funds would be going to healthcare…
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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A prescription to ease the emergency in Canada’s ERs
Friday, December 16th, 2022
Opening more doors for doctors trained elsewhere, Canadian or otherwise, is where Ottawa can focus any new dollars it commits, in co-operation with the provinces. That money should come with strings attached by government – to steer new doctors to family practices in underserved areas… We don’t know where family doctors are working, how they’re working, and where the shortages are. Collecting and collating that information… is a necessary first step.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, standard of living
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