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CMA calls for elimination of sick note requirements by employers

Monday, October 28th, 2024

The association says sick notes burden physicians with unnecessary administrative tasks and detract from patient care. In a new position paper, the CMA calls for legislative changes to restrict the requirement for sick notes and promote alternatives such as self-certification and flexible leave policies… the move aims to ease the administrative burden on health care providers and improve patients’ access to care and the overall efficiency of the health care system.

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The Nurse Practitioner Answer to the Primary Care Crisis

Sunday, October 27th, 2024

Another factor [to explain Canadians’ seemingly sudden disenchantment with their healthcare system]may be the reluctance of provincial governments to undertake major institutional reforms. Since the 1990s, when serious budget deficits necessitated action, most provinces have been reluctant to provoke opposition from powerful interest groups, in particular physicians’ associations… As a result of this opposition, some NPs are underemployed in rural and remote communities or underutilized in urban hospitals…

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Why it is urgent that Ontario share health data with Ottawa

Sunday, October 27th, 2024

… every province and territory closely guard their residents’ health from the federal public health agency to varying degrees, but what’s done in the name of protecting individual privacy comes at the cost of blinding the Public Health Agency of Canada to a fuller understanding of the health of Canadians… Timely and accurate data inform sound public health policies. Their absence does the opposite, including leaving risk management to the most vulnerable.

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Province Appoints Dr. Jane Philpott as Chair of New Primary Care Action Team

Thursday, October 24th, 2024

Dr. Philpott will oversee… the connection of every Ontarian with primary care services within the next five years… with input from other primary health care leaders across the province, she will provide and implement an action plan ensuring the Minister of Health can further expand team-based primary health care across the province… This plan will ensure better service on weekends and after-hours, reducing the significant administrative burden on family doctors and other primary care professionals and improving connections to specialists and digital tools.

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Canada’s getting national pharmacare. Here’s what it means for you

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024

With the Liberal government’s pharmacare plan enacted earlier this month, the government only needs to sign individual deals with the provinces to realize widespread access to diabetes medication, like insulin, and a broad array of contraceptives… “informal” talks have already been ongoing… Ottawa can sign deals with all provinces by next spring… Ontario’s government, however, is still mulling over the fine print of the program.

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6.5 million Canadians lack a family doctor. The solution is already here

Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

In a report released this month, [three of Canada’s senators] suggest the following: accelerate a pathway for the many internationally trained doctors who are currently unable to practise in Canada…. Hundreds of ITPs currently compete for each residency spot available to them, a situation which is clearly untenable… Practice Ready Assessment[s] consist[s] of a 3-month assessment of a doctor’s competency to practise, assessed by licensed doctors in Canada while they see patients, usually in a rural or remote setting.

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Foreign doctors won’t solve our family physician crisis. Here’s what might

Monday, October 14th, 2024

Expand and reform medical education… increase capacity and tailor programs to meet current needs, especially in family medicine… Reform selection processes to attract medical students who are committed and suited for specialties in need, particularly family medicine… Embrace community-based training… Incentivize family medicine… Integrate technology… Promote team-based approaches that maximize and effectively integrate the skills of various health professionals, improving patient care and physician satisfaction.

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Toronto hospital to open permanent supportive housing apartments for homeless people

Monday, October 7th, 2024

A new housing project for those who live on the streets and frequently end up in the emergency room is set to welcome its first residents in Toronto this month, supported by one of the largest hospital networks in Canada… The hope is that the project will ease pressures on hospitals while also providing stable care for vulnerable individuals… [and] a playbook for other jurisdictions or other partnerships between every level of government, between hospital and community, to try to advance concrete solutions for people

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Ford’s bungling of Ontario’s nursing shortage is aimed at undermining public health care

Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

… staff shortages and long wait-lists in Ontario are problems that were greatly exacerbated by Ford’s mishandling of the nursing crisis. Could it be that the dissatisfaction with our health-care system may be best solved — not by introducing a lot of private, profit-making clinics — but simply by paying nurses good wages within the public system?

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We’re doctors. This is the glaring hole we see in our national health care conversation

Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

Eliminating out-of-pocket costs for medications used to treat diabetes, cardiovascular disease and chronic respiratory conditions would result in 220,000 fewer ER visits and 90,000 less hospital stays annually, saving the health care system $1.2 billion a year… Unaffordable drugs invoke worry, helplessness and dread and creates a potentially damaging dependency. Granted, it’s difficult to assign a savings to the emotional costs currently being paid, but it’s intellectually dishonest to not even mention them.

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