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Govind Rao

Infographic: Poverty, Poor Housing and Child Health | The Homeless Hub - 2 views

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from heather poverty housing ally determinants

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  • ineeth Sekharan York University; The Homeless Hub January 07, 2015 Tags: child poverty, street youth, housing, family homelessness
  • the link between poor housing conditions and it’s affect on children’s health.
Govind Rao

Report on CUPE-Council of Canadians Health Accord campaign | The Council of Canadians - 1 views

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from heather coc accord ally campaign cupe

shared by Govind Rao on 24 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • February 20, 2015
  • The Council of Canadians and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are working together to defend public health care. Together we organized town hall meetings in communities including Winnipeg (April 17), Moncton (April 23), Bridgewater (April 29), Regina (June 23), North Bay (June 24), Charlottetown (August 26), Oshawa (September 4), Sault Ste. Marie (September 18), Campbell River (October 20), Courtenay (October 21), St. John's (December 1) and Corner Brook (December 2). Along with these town hall meetings, other critical elements of this campaign included door knocking, leafleting and mail outs in key ridings.
Govind Rao

Palliative Care: Continued Progress But Gaps Remain - 0 views

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from heather palliative seniors ltc

shared by Govind Rao on 09 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Gaps Remain Diane Meier and R. Sean Morrison
  • October 9, 2015
  • The field of palliative care is a relatively recent entrant to the U.S. health care landscape. For those who may not know, palliative care is a new team-based medical specialty that focuses on relief of the pain, symptoms, and stresses of a serious illness in order to achieve the best possible quality of life for patients and their family caregivers.
Irene Jansen

Lamentable media coverage and state deception, the scandal of NHS legislation | openDem... - 0 views

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nhs social care bill media

shared by Irene Jansen on 27 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • The Health and Social Care Bill has just passed through Parliament. A huge step towards privatising the NHS has been taken. The most cherished of UK public institutions is being dismantled and large private providers are already signing contracts. All this is against the wishes of a large majority of the public and an even larger majority of health-care professionals.
  • The Department of Health had already been infiltrated by McKinseys consultants under New Labour (see Player and Leys, 2011 ↑ ).
  • Professional opposition was widespread. Keep Our NHS Public ↑ , 38 Degrees ↑ , Spinwatch ↑ and others began scrutinising the bill and campaigning at an early stage. New local BMA groups sprang up all over the country in an attempt to force their leadership to engage with its ordinary members about their concerns. Numerous articles and blogs appeared, written by health professionals who had scrutinised the bill in far more detail than politicians or journalists[i]. Public meetings took place regularly - and across the UK, not limited to England. Many demonstrations took place. Marathons were run. Barely any of this was reported
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  • Lansley’s long term links and dialogue with private health care lobbyists and providers was barely mentioned (see Spinwatch
  • this is a large step towards privatisation. Bupa, currently flooding the UK with advertising, knows this. So do Virgin, Sainsbury’s, United Healthcare, Circle, and Care UK.
  • £20 billion of ‘efficiency savings’ are really £20 billion of ‘cuts
Govind Rao

Health care: Canada's system can no longer be considered a point of pride | David vs. D... - 1 views

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from heather privatization

shared by Govind Rao on 29 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • By David Kilgour
  • Canadians have an enormous attachment, almost equivalent to national self-definition, in our universal health care system.
  • The cost savings of Canada’s single-insurer vs. the American multiple insurer competitive system are clear. A study reported by the International Journal of Health Services concluded that reducing American administrative and promotional costs to Canadian levels would save at least $209 billion a year, “enough to fund universal coverage.”
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  • There is now major concern across Canada about long waiting periods, availability of services, shortages of nurses and physicians, specific illnesses (especially cancer and heart disease) and caring for our aging population.
  • He is a former MP for both the Conservative and Liberal Parties in the south-east region of Edmonton and has also served as the Secretary of State for Latin America and Africa, Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific and Deputy Speaker of the House.
  • Former heart surgeon Wilbert Keon and Senator Michael Kirby make three suggestions:
  • David Kilgour is co-chair of the Canadian Friends of a Democratic Iran and a director of the Washington-based Council for a Community of Democracies (CCD)
  • Many other nations today, while providing universal access, charge small user fees for hospitals, GPs, or specialists. Canada is the only member of the rich nations’ club, the OECD, to bar privately funded purchase of core services.
  • y David Kilgour | David vs. David – Fri, 29 Nov, 2013
Govind Rao

With The ACA Secure, It's Time To Focus On Social Determinants - 0 views

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from heather determinants us

shared by Govind Rao on 22 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • Social Determinants Elizabeth Bradley and Lauren Taylor July 21, 2015
  • Editor’s note: This article is part of a series of blog posts by leaders in health and health care who participated in Spotlight Health from June 25-28, the opening segment of the Aspen Ideas Festival. This year’s theme was Smart Solutions to the World’s Toughest Challenges. Stayed tuned for more. While Medicaid expansion remains a dream for Americans in many states, the integrity of both the state and federal marketplaces for insurance remained intact following the June 25 Supreme Court decision to allow the federal government to provide nationwide tax subsidies to help people buy health insurance. The following morning, Kathleen Sebelius led a discussion at the Aspen Ideas Festival calling the Court’s action “The strongest possible decision. Definitive.” The judicial victory provided space for participants to commit to asking new questions about how to improve health at a reasonable cost. After months of uncertainty, many of the leading minds in US health policy began to ask: What’s next?
Govind Rao

BMJ Blogs: The BMJ » Blog Archive » David Zigmond: Payments for diagnosing de... - 0 views

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from heather dementia privatization UK doctors

shared by Govind Rao on 18 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • 21 Nov, 14
  • Payment by results in matters of complex welfare can easily subtract from, rather than add to, our greater good. The recent and mooted NHS initiative for payment by results—to pay GPs £55 for each new dementia diagnosis—matches any folly in our contemporary gallery of well intentioned welfare misconceptions.
  • This fresh folly draws from these simplistic assumptions: that dementia is an illness that is underdiagnosed and undertreated; that doctors are undermotivated to address these problems; and that financial incentives will substantially change our burdens from dementia.
CPAS RECHERCHE

The care workers left behind as private equity targets the NHS | Society | The Observer - 0 views

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privatisation financing soins à domicile home care UK

shared by CPAS RECHERCHE on 14 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • It's one of the many pieces of wisdom – trivial, and yet not – that this slight, nervous mother-of-three has picked up over her 16 years as a support worker looking after people in their homes
  • 100 new staff replacing some of those who have walked away in disgust.
  • Her £8.91 an hour used to go up to nearly £12 when she worked through the night helping John and others. It would go to around £14 an hour on a bank holiday or weekend. It wasn't a fortune, and it involved time away from the family, but an annual income of £21,000 "allowed us a life", she says. Care UK ripped up those NHS ways when it took over.
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  • £7 an hour, receives an extra £1 an hour for a night shift and £2 an hour for weekends.
  • "The NHS encourages you to have these NVQs, all this training, improve your knowledge, and then they [private care companies] come along and it all comes to nothing.
  • Care UK expects to make a profit "of under 6%" by the end of the three-year contract
  • £700,000 operating profit in the six months between September last year and March this year,
  • In 1993 the private sector provided 5% of the state-funded services given to people in their homes, known as domiciliary care. By 2012 this had risen to 89% – largely driven by the local authorities' need for cheaper ways to deliver services and the private sector's assurance that they could provide the answer. More than £2.7bn is spent by the state on this type of care every year. Private providers have targeted wages as a way to slice out profits, de-skilling the sector in the process.
  • 1.4 million care workers in England are unregulated by any professional body and less than 50% have completed a basic NVQ2 level qualification, with 30% apparently not even completing basic induction trainin
  • Today 8% of care homes are supplied by private equity-owned firms – and the number is growing. The same is true of 10% of services run for those with learning disabilities
  • William Laing
  • report on private equity in July 2012
  • "It makes pots of money.
  • Those profits – which are made before debt payments and overheads – don't appear on the bottom line of the health firms' company accounts, and because of that corporation tax isn't paid on them.
  • Some of that was in payments on loans issued in Guernsey, meaning tax could not be charged. Its sister company, Silver Sea, responsible for funding the construction of Care UK care homes, is domiciled in the tax haven of Luxembourg
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Govind Rao

BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Sarah Gregory: What can we learn from h... - 0 views

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from heather funding international

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  • by BMJ
  • 31 Mar, 14
  • England is not alone in facing the implications of an ageing population with changing patterns of illness. To inform the work of the independent commission on the future of health and social care in England, I have spent the past few months looking at how other countries are responding to these challenges. By comparison with other OECD countries, two features of the English system stand out. First, we have an unusually defined split between our health and social care systems. By comparison, many countries have developed a funding system for social care that complements their funding for health. For example, Germany, France, Korea, and Japan have all introduced insurance for social care to complement their systems of health insurance. Second, we are at the lower end of the range for public spending on social care, although it is difficult to establish direct comparisons as we do not report on social care funding to the OECD. The UK spent 1.2 per cent of GDP on long term care in 2012/13, while the highest figure reported to the OECD was 3.7 per cent (in the Netherlands).
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  • Sarah Gregory is a researcher in health policy at The King’s Fund.
Govind Rao

BMJ Blogs: The BMJ » Blog Archive » Hugh Alderwick: The ups and downs on the ... - 0 views

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from heather UK privatization

shared by Govind Rao on 26 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • 19 Sep, 14 | by BMJ
  • Parallels between the successful transformation of the Veterans Health Administration (VA) in the United States and the changes needed in the NHS in England have been made for a number of years. But recent troubles at the VA offer some important lessons for the NHS in the future, as explored in a roundtable discussion held at the King’s Fund last week.
Govind Rao

Making minced meat out of Mintz's politicized numbers :: Parkland blog :: Parkland Inst... - 0 views

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from heather Alberta corporation taxes

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  • April 27, 2015
  • posted by Ian Hussey
  • During last week's leaders debate, Jean responded to a question about the NDP platform plank to increase corporate taxes from the current lowest-in-Canada rate of 10% to 12% by saying, "Leading economists have been clear: a 1% increase in corporate taxes means 9,000 jobs. What they're proposing  [the NDP] is to eliminate almost 20,000 jobs in Alberta." It was a talking point that Jean lifted directly from the PC's election platform, which states, "Economist and tax expert Jack Mintz from the University of Calgary has pointed out that a one per cent increase of the corporate tax could cost Alberta billions in investment and 8,900 jobs."
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  • In response, the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) pointed out that in the two years following the April 2013 move in British Columbia to increase corporate income tax from 10% to 11%, the BC economy actually added 37,000 jobs. 
Govind Rao

Uber for doctor housecalls - Blog | White Coat, Black Art with Dr. Brian Goldman | CBC ... - 0 views

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from heather doctors home care US

shared by Govind Rao on 11 May 15 - No Cached
  • By Dr. Brian Goldman
  • Doctors who make house calls may seem like a thing of the past. But in the States they're making a comeback - thanks to smartphones and a new service that summons a doctor in the same way that the on-demand car service Uber hails a ride. As reported last week in the New York Times, there are several of these services available south of the border.  They have names like Heal, Doctor on Demand, Pager and Teladoc.  
Govind Rao

Housing Is A Prescription For Better Health - 0 views

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from heather housing determinants

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  • Kathy Moses and Rachel Davis July 22, 2015
  • Effectively managing a chronic health condition involves a myriad of tasks for anyone, ranging from scheduling and getting to frequent doctor appointments to regularly taking and refilling numerous medications and eating a healthy diet. Being homeless makes these basic tasks even more overwhelming, particularly if combined with additional chronic health and/or behavioral health conditions, which so many homeless individuals have.
Govind Rao

TPP: profits before patients | The Council of Canadians - 0 views

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from heather trade drugs pharmacare coc

shared by Govind Rao on 07 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • October 6, 2015
  • The news yesterday that the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations have concluded is one that should worry Canadians, especially in regards to the relationship between intellectual property rights (IP) and pharmaceuticals (the text of the TPP includes 29 chapters, only five of which are about trade). Even the likes of Paul Krugman have changed their tune and stated, “this is not a trade agreement. It’s about intellectual property and dispute settlement; the big beneficiaries are likely to be pharma companies and firms that want to sue governments.” Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz recently added that, “you will hear much about the importance of the TPP for 'free trade.' The reality is that this is an agreement to manage its members’ trade and investment relations – and to do so on behalf of each country’s most powerful business lobbies. Make no mistake: It is evident from the main outstanding issues, over which negotiators are still haggling, that the TPP is not about “free” trade.”
Govind Rao

Contributor Post: Paying for health care by Canadian Public Policy author Raisa Deber U... - 0 views

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from heather medicare

shared by Govind Rao on 15 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • by cmacmillan on December 8, 2014
  • Raisa Deber, PhD Professor Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
  • What is the best way to pay for health care? As a professor of health policy, I am frequently asked to comment on proposals to change how health care is financed. The rationale varies, as do the goals. Extend coverage? Control costs? Encourage appropriate utilization? I frequently resorted to the policy analyst’s creed – “one size does not fit all”. Yet it seemed that it might be helpful to clarify what sizes the tailor might need to serve.
Govind Rao

It's time to rethink Ottawa's role in health care - 1 views

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from heather ally accord electronic records

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  • Govind Rao on 11 Feb 15
     
    A IRPP Research Program Study Steven Lewis Blog post, February 9, 2015 The federal government needs to leave the management of the health system to the provinces and focus on the one function that must be national: building a health information system that speaks unvarnished truths to Canadians about the system's performance and drives change.
  • Govind Rao on 11 Feb 15
     
    A IRPP Research Program Study Steven Lewis Blog post, February 9, 2015
Govind Rao

If the Ebola outbreak were in Calgary… | Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE - 0 views

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from heather cupe ontario infectious disease

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  • If the Ebola outbreak were in Calgary…21/October/2014 09:00 AM Toronto, Ont. – “ If the Ebola outbreak were in Calgary the federal government would likely act, because people would be dying on the floors and at the doorways of overwhelmed hospitals, in their homes and on the streets. Canada would call out desperately for help and we would want that call to be answered from around the world. Today our federal government again turned its back on Africa and African lives, “ said Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE.Minister of Health Rona Ambrose has announced that no additional medical personnel would be encouraged to go to West Africa until their medical evacuation could be guaranteed. Medical evacuation can cost $150,000 per patient transfer. In response to the problems of the cost and complexity of medical evacuation and the scarcity of airplanes, which can safely effect medical evacuation of a patient with Ebola, U.S. medical emergency planners are building additional treatment centres in the affected countries, for medical personnel.
Govind Rao

Rally at Temiskaming Hospital Monday, campaign to draw attention of Minister to cutback... - 0 views

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from heather cupe ontario campaign hospital cuts rural

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  • Rally at Temiskaming Hospital Monday, campaign to draw attention of Minister to cutbacks20/October/2014 08:00 AM New Liskeard, Ont. – Staff of the Temiskaming Hospital will rally on Monday October 20, at noon, to protest plans to cut staff and services, says Arlene Hearn, president of local 904 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.Downsizing hospitals, cutting beds and shedding services has been the basis for the provincial Liberal government’s health care delivery changes. Small rural hospitals are particularly threatened under this plan. Temiskaming Hospital is in the third year of a 5-year funding freeze and cannot maintain services and staff without additional support from the province.
Heather Farrow

Fighting against for-profit blood collection in Nova Scotia | rabble.ca - 0 views

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ns private clinics cbs privatization

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  • By Tori Ball | April 26, 2016
  • In November of 2012, Expharma/Canadian Plasma Resources applied for licenses for two plasma collection facilities to be opened in Toronto. At this time, only Quebec had legislation banning payment of donors for blood. With the threat of paid plasma clinics imminent, the Ontario legislature unanimously passed The Voluntary Blood Donations Act in December 2014. This past February, Health Canada gave an operating license to Expharma/Canadian Plasma Resources to open the first paid-donor plasma collection clinic in Saskatoon, which opened in February 2016. The company has licenses pending in British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba.
Heather Farrow

Some nursing home seniors don't need the ER - Blog | White Coat, Black Art with Dr. Bri... - 0 views

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ltc emerg hospital seniors

shared by Heather Farrow on 04 May 16 - No Cached
  • By Dr. Brian Goldman
  • In a study published late last month, researchers from Indiana University looked at the records of nearly five thousand nursing home residents.  All of were diagnosed with dementia.  Over the course of a year, just under half of those nursing home patients were transferred to the local ER for treatment.  You might think that nursing home patients are sicker than other patients, and therefore in greater need of admission to hospital.  But that's not what the study found.  Thirty-six per cent of the nursing home patients sent to the ER for treatment were admitted; almost two thirds (64 per cent) were sent back to the nursing home without being admitted.  
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