Rather than pay GPs to reduce referrals, use the money to improve community services | ... - 0 views
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Should GPs be paid to reduce unnecessary referrals?
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BMJ 2015; 351 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h6598 (Published 09 December 2015) Cite this as: BMJ 2015;351:h6598
MPPs attack 'broken' system | The London Free Press - 0 views
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December 3, 2015 1
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Ontario’s ruling Liberals would rather pretend there’s nothing wrong with the state of health care than admit to glaring problems exposed by the auditor general, the NDP health critic says. “They stubbornly refuse to acknowledge they have a problem,” France Gelinas said Thursday. “It’s the people of Ontario (who are) paying the price with their health and their lives.”
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Local health integration networks (LHINs) were to be a cornerstone for the government as it tried to shift health care from costly hospitals to cheaper, community-based care.
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Wait times for medical scans surge in Quebec: report; Radiologists can earn more chargi... - 0 views
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Montreal Gazette Wed Dec 9 2015 Page: A2
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Quebec reported the steepest increase this year of any province in wait times for medical imaging scans in Canada - a finding which suggests that the public system is being stretched to the limit, a national survey reveals. The 25th annual survey by the Fraser Institute found that the median wait time in hospital for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan in Quebec jumped to 12 weeks this year from eight in 2014. By comparison, the median wait time for an MRI is five weeks in Ontario, unchanged from last year.
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Wait times increased slightly for other medical imaging in Quebec, going up from four to five weeks for both ultrasounds and CT (computerized tomography) scans. (Although Prince Edward Island reported a considerably longer wait for ultrasounds, its survey sample size was much smaller than Quebec's and so its results are probably skewed, a Fraser Institute spokesperson said. In any case, P.E.I.'s wait times for MRIs decreased to 12 weeks from 16.) Unlike all other provinces, Quebec allows radiologists to work in both the public and private systems. Doctors are permitted by law to bill medicare for scans performed in hospital, and to bill patients for those same scans if conducted in a private clinic. This has proved to be a sore point for Health Canada, which has argued repeatedly that Quebec is flouting the accessibility principle of the Canada Health Act.
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Ottawa urged to sprinkle refugee flow across country - Infomart - 0 views
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The Globe and Mail Tue Dec 1 2015
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Mayors and provincial officials are putting pressure on the federal government to ensure that Syrian refugees initially settle all over the country instead of congregating in Canada's biggest cities. Details of Ottawa's plans to bring in 25,000 refugees by the end of February remain incomplete, including when the Syrians will start arriving in Canada and where they will be settled.
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However, there are growing concerns that a large majority of the government-sponsored refugees will be drawn to cities such as Montreal and Toronto, where thousands of privately sponsored refugees are heading in coming weeks to join large, existing communities of Syrian Canadians. Officials in the Atlantic provinces, including Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, argue that having refugees more uniformly distributed could provide a great opportunity for the region to deal with its demographic challenges. "It ties in with the needs of Nova Scotia for immigrants to come to the province, so we think there can be not only a humanitarian and compassionate side to this, but also be very good for our economy," Mr. Savage said .
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Blame province for lack of health services in northeastern Ontario, not beleaguered NE ... - 0 views
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Dec 16, 2015
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SUDBURY, ON – The beleaguered North East Local Health Integration Network (NE LHIN) is a “scapegoat” and a pawn in the province’s plan to under-resource health care, says Michael Hurley the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU). “While complicit, the LHIN should not be blamed for the lack of health services in Ontario’s northeast. The provincial government is to blame.
Ontario to announce health-care reforms; Move comes amid scathing reports into home car... - 0 views
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The Globe and Mail Thu Dec 17 2015
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Ontario is releasing its longawaited plans to overhaul health care, restructuring its troubled home-care system and proposing changes to the way primary care is organized to make it easier for people to find family doctors and get an appointment when they are sick. The move, to be made public Thursday in a discussion paper, comes as the Liberal government faces mounting pressure to make changes to home care following a string of scathing reports and questions about its failure to act sooner. The timing of this move also raises questions, coming so close to the holidays when the legislature is not in session and opposition critics are in their ridings or out of the country on vacation.
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At the centre of the proposal, as reported by The Globe and Mail last month, will be the expansion of the role played by the province's Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) and the elimination of Ontario's 14 Community Care Access Centres (CCACs), the public agencies responsible for overseeing the delivery of services such as nursing, physiotherapy and help with personal care for the sick and the elderly in their homes. The CCACs have long been criticized, and were the focus of a Globe and Mail investigation that found inconsistent standards of care and a lack of transparency that left patients and their families struggling to access services.
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Health-Care Policies Have Stranded My Mother In A Hospital | Susan Kennard - 0 views
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Susan Kennard Become a fan Prairie girl living in the mountains. Board Chair YWCA Banff. Art, culture & heritage professional. Feminist. MA International Development
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2/16/2015
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Since then she has been stuck living at this hospital with no medical reason to be there while she waits for a long-term care room to become available. This scenario is so common nowadays that a new category of care had to be defined to describe the status of patients such as my mother: Alternate Level of Care (ALC). A patient may be designated as ALC if he or she is occupying an acute care hospital bed but is no longer acutely ill and does not require the intensity of resources and services provided in an acute care setting.
37 Health Care Issues from the Auditor General: Performance Problems |Defend Public Hea... - 0 views
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12/16/15
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The litany of health care problems identified by the Auditor General in her 2015 report is frightening. Here's thirty-seven of them.
Fedeli wrong to blame beleaguered NE LHIN for lack of health services in northeastern O... - 0 views
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17/December/2015
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NORTH BAY, ON — The beleaguered North East Local Health Integration Network (NE LHIN) is a “scapegoat” and a pawn in the province’s plan to under-resource health care, says Michael Hurley the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU). “While complicit, the LHIN should not be blamed for the lack of health services in Ontario’s northeast. We encourage the MPP from Nipissing to place the blame for lack of access to medical care where it belongs, with the provincial government.”
How much must provincial funding for North Bay hospital increase just to reach the Cana... - 0 views
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Nov 24, 2015
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NORTH BAY, ON ― Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) data indicates that hospitals in the rest of Canada get 25.3 per cent more funding from provincial governments than hospitals in Ontario. Ontario’s Liberal government is underfunding the care of patients at North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) by millions of dollars each year.
Closing hospital cafeterias won't accomplish much - Infomart - 0 views
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The Daily Gleaner (Fredericton) Fri Nov 27 2015
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Last week, the Horizon Health Network announced that it was closing some hospital cafeterias and substantially reducing the hours of others. This change is meant to save the health network some of the money that it currently spends on the cafeterias, but it will only save the health network a tiny amount of money, while imposing a real cost on vulnerable New Brunswickers, most notably those who are ill in hospital and their families, as well as the staff that makes hospitals run efficiently and provides the public services that are delivered in hospitals. In the greater scheme of things, this decision will have no real impact on New Brunswick's fiscal health but it will hurt those New Brunswickers who need the service in a very tangible way.
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If Horizon Health is going to treat food service as a commercial operation and not treat it as a public service, then it should go all the way and privatize food service operations in New Brunswick's hospitals. In doing so, though, the health network needs to realize that food service in hospitals has to be accessible for a wide range of hours; it should be a requirement of any contracts signed with private food service providers that the privatized cafeterias remain open and serve food, at a minimum, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., or maybe even require them to remain open 24 hours a day. As well, privatizing the food service operations in our hospitals risks having our workforce lose good, unionized jobs, at a time when good jobs are hard to find in New Brunswick; doing so should thus only happen after a serious public debate
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P3 secrecy disrespectful to taxpayers - Infomart - 0 views
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The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) Sat Oct 24 2015
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As Premier Brad Wall's Saskatchewan Party government heads toward an election in April, it has clearly recognized the need to mind its P's and Q's. So one can only wonder why it's not better at minding its P3s. Its justifications for its public-private partnership approach - especially when applied to the now $1.8-billion-plus Regina bypass - are becoming more specious by the day.
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In fact, the government is in full spin mode, providing the media and even the NDP Opposition with Highways Ministry technical briefings. The problem, however, is the more information it releases in dribs and drabs, the more legitimate appear the questions it seems to be providing for the media, Opposition and the "Why Tower Road?" crowd, which is now running a TV blitz on the costs. This week, the questions seemed a lot better than the answers.
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Take Back Our Hospital: Fall Days of Action in S/E On, N/E On, and Scarborough/Durham -... - 0 views
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October 23, 2015
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Days of Action in S/E Ontario, N/E Ontario and Scarborough/Durham
Horrific health care stories | North Bay Nugget - 0 views
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October 22, 2015
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The stories were personal and horrific. One-by-one, callers shared stories about the care they have received at the North Bay Regional Health Centre. Roberta had her right breast removed and spent one night in hospital before being discharged.
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“I was on my own and I wasn't in good shape,” she said. “I had nobody to help me. I know I'm not alone. We have an aging population and there are a lot of people with severe health problems.” The calls were part of teleconference town hall organized Thursday night by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). More than 4,300 callers participated.
Rheumatic fever rates in some Ontario First Nations 75 times higher than rest of Canada... - 0 views
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Two 4-year-olds died of the preventable disease in recent 18-month period
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Oct 22, 2015
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People living in remote First Nations north of Sioux Lookout, Ont., are experiencing acute rheumatic fever at a rate that is among the highest in the world, according to new research from the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
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Austerity model has run its course in this province | CUPE New Brunswick - 0 views
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FREDERICTON: The largest union in New Brunswick, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, is consulting with members across the province on a new course of action to halt the Government’s austerity bulldozer. “We are ready to pull out all the stops to save the social fabric of New Brunswick”, said Odette Robichaud, CUPE NB Vice-President.
Nova Scotia government may force wage package on public servants - Nova Scotia - CBC News - 0 views
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Legislation affects workers in all public sectors including Crown corporations
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Dec 14, 2015
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Premier Stephen McNeil said he wasn't afraid to do it. And on Monday, his finance minister, Randy Delorey, brought in legislation that could impose a wage package on 75,000 public servants.
Attacks by patients on nurses called rampant - Health - CBC News - 0 views
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Staff cutbacks present a 'recipe for disaster,' conference told
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Jan 27, 2016
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Nurses are being beaten and choked during attacks from patients as they struggle with understaffing, a conference heard Wednesday. Registered practical nurses from across Ontario are meeting in Kingston to address violence they face on the job, from beatings to being spit on, in hospitals and nursing homes.
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Selinger: health-care is a 'sacred cow' | News | Manitoba Votes | More | Winnipe - 0 views
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By Jim Bender, Winnipeg Sun First posted: Sunday, March 20, 2016
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Premier Greg Selinger believes there are many “sacred cows” that should not be cut or killed in Manitoba. Earlier this week, Progressive Conservative leader Brian Pallister said “there are no sacred cows” when it comes time to reduce costs if he is elected to be the new premier on April 19.
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