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Cheryl Stadnichuk

Medical regulators in every province impose safeguards for assisted dying - The Globe a... - 0 views

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physician-assisted-dying canada

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  • Medical regulators in every province have issued detailed guidelines doctors must follow to help suffering patients end their lives once Canada’s ban on medically assisted dying is formally lifted next month.And most of those guidelines impose safeguards similar to — or even more stringent than — those included in the federal government’s proposed new law on assisted death. The existence of guidelines in every province undercuts federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould’s contention that there’ll be a dangerous legal void if the government’s controversial new law on assisted dying isn’t enacted by June 6.
  • Like the proposed federal law, most of the various guidelines produced by provincial colleges of physicians and surgeons require that at least two doctors must agree that a patient meets the eligibility criteria for an assisted death, that a patient must submit a written request signed by witnesses, that there be a waiting period between the request and the provision of an assisted death, that a patient must be competent to give free, informed consent throughout the process, up to the time of dying.Some impose more stringent safeguards, for instance putting the age of consent at 19 rather than the federally proposed 18, and requiring a psychiatric assessment in cases where depression or mental illness might impair a patient’s ability to give consent.The one big difference, said Paterson, is that the provincial guidelines rely on the relatively permissive eligibility criteria spelled out by the Supreme Court whereas the federal government is proposing more restrictive conditions.
  • Yet the federal government has all but ignored the wishes of medical regulators and the guidelines they’ve produced, citing instead approval of its proposed law by the Canadian Medical Association, which lobbies on behalf of doctors but does not regulate, license or discipline them.“I’m not sure that the federal government generally ... has a good understanding about the role of medical regulators and our powers and our authority and our ability to regulate our professions,” said Theman.“So it may be that they see a void (if the legislation isn’t enacted by June 6) because they’re not used to dealing with us and they’re less aware of what we’re capable of.”
Heather Farrow

OUR TIMES | Canada's Independent Labour Magazine - 1 views

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environment

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  • Summer 2016
  • By James Hutt
  • For the first time in over a decade, Canada has a government that is not ideologically opposed to even talking about climate change. Instead of criminalizing environmentalists, muzzling scientists and actively lobbying on behalf of the oil industry, Trudeau has promised a new age of cooperation.
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  • ONE MILLION GOOD JOBS
  • A national climate strategy holds incredible potential for the labour movement. That's why the Canadian Labour Congress teamed up with a number of environmental organizations and First Nations to deliver a proposal to the prime minister in advance of the Vancouver meeting. The proposal, called "One Million Climate Jobs," presents a plan to address poverty and tackle climate change by creating jobs.
  • Yet most premiers are still intent on developing fossil fuel projects and Trudeau still trumpets pipelines.
  • EXTREME FIRES, VIABLE ALTERNATIVES In May, Canada experienced one of the worst natural disasters our country has ever seen. The devastating wild fire
  • A number of recent reports, including a landmark study by a global team of researchers at Stanford University, have demonstrated that Canada could switch to renewables by 2030. Indeed, renewable energy sources are already powerful and efficient enough to be a viable alternative.
  • Environmental groups and the Canadian Labour Congress have called for an end to fossil fuels by 2050. The extra 20 years provides a realistic timeline that also allows Canada to retrain workers as it gradually shuts down all oil, coal and natural gas projects.
  • The rate of unionization of all workers has been falling for decades. In 1982, it was 38 per cent. In 2014, it reached an historic low of 28 per cent. That downward trend will continue unless unions find ways to organize new sectors of workers.
  • Iron and Earth, a non-profit organization led by oil sands workers, plans to retrain over 1,000 oil and gas electricians in solar installation within three years.
Govind Rao

Contracting out of surgical preparation and delivery - 2 views

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from heather cupe ontario hospital private clinics privatization

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  • Contracting Out Hospital Work to Private Clinics – Backgrounder For years CUPE has been concerned the Ontario government would transfer public hospital surgeries and diagnostic tests to private clinics. CUPE began campaigning in earnest against this possibility some years ago with a tour of the province by British Health Secretary Frank Dobson who talked about the disastrous British experience with private surgical clinics.Unfortunately, the provincial Liberal government has now moved in this direction. The door opened a few years ago with the introduction of fee for service hospital funding (sometimes called Activities Based Funding). Then in the fall of 2013 the government announced regulatory changes to facilitate this privatization, with the government finally announcing Request for Proposals for the summer of 2014.
  • Hospitals are the main focus of the government’s health care cuts. They do not see community hospitals as providing a broad range of services to the local ... [Read More]population, but instead wish to remove an untold range of services from local hospitals and transfer them to specialized private clinics. The proposal would remove the most lucrative, high volume and easiest procedures from community hospitals. The remaining community hospitals would be left with the most difficult services. If they chose to compete with the private clinics, they would have to specialize in a narrow range of services. The government’s plan is the opposite of one-stop, integrated public health care. This proposed privatization of surgeries and diagnostic tests is in addition to the aggressive attempts to remove non-acute care services from hospitals (e.g. outpatient clinics, complex continuing care, rehabilitation, long-term care, primary care, etc.). As acute care currently accounts for only about 1/3 of current hospital funding, these attacks are a grave threat to the viability of community hospitals, and in fact we are now seeing a wave of hospital shut-downs that is somewhat reminiscent of the Mike Harris era. Despite the government’s rhetoric about keeping care non-profit, services that are being cut from local hospitals now are being privatized to for-profit owned corporations. Even if the private clinics did start out as non-profit (which has not been the case so far) the whole system of private clinics could be privatized with a stroke of a pen.
  • Ontario Health Care Privatization: The push for health care privatization in Ontario picked up in 2001 when Ontario Health Minister Tony Clement announced two privatized P3 hospital projects, the Royal Ottawa and the Brampton Civic (part of William Osler Health Centre). Spirited community-based campaigns, including P3 plebiscites in many towns, forced the Liberal government to greatly narrow the scope of the privatization of support jobs (i.e. CUPE jobs) in subsequent P3 hospitals. Nevertheless privatization of the hospital financing continues, despite revelations by the provincial Auditor General that confirmed claims by CUPE and others that the Osler project cost hundreds of millions more due to the P3.
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  • MRI and CT Clinics: The PC government also tried to set up private MRI and CT clinics outside of hospitals. Community/labour campaigns however were able to stop this. A key factor was that, to increase their revenue, the private clinics were allowed to bill private patients for a certain number of hours each week (with the rest of the week dedicated to patients paid for by the public system). As the public insurance system must pay for all ‘medically necessary’ hospital services, the government was left to try to explain why any reputable clinic would allow patients to subject themselves to such tests for medically unnecessary reasons. Since this episode, private clinics have been in the news – but mostly for the wrong reasons. Private surgical and diagnostic clinics: Initially, the government let the emerging industry slip entirely free of public reporting and oversight. However, after the September 2007 death of Krista Stryland, a young mother who underwent liposuction at a Toronto cosmetic clinic, the government required the industry to face some modest oversight in 2010. Unfortunately this was not by a public authority, but through self-regulation by the doctors (even though the doctors themselves had lobbied to expand this private industry).
  • Then in the fall of 2011, following disclosure that 6,800 patients would have to be notified that faulty infection control procedures at a private clinic could have exposed them to HIV or hepatitis, the then Health Minister, Deb Matthews, declined to introduce oversight by a public authority, despite public pressure. Instead she comments, “Government can’t do everything. A professional (regulating body) like the College of Physicians and Surgeons, they take responsibility for their members....At this point I am delighted the College is taking that responsibility seriously and has found a problem that we need to fix.” Eventually the College of Physicians and Surgeons released a report on the private clinics that mentions that some 29% of the private clinics fall short in some way – but the College would not indicate which ones – or how they fell short. This caused public uproar, with the Toronto Star playing a leading role (as it would continue to do). Again, the government promised improvements. In the last two months however, the Star has followed up and revealed (after our urging) that the public reports from the College of Physicians and Surgeons fall far short. They also ran a series of often front page stories on serious quality problems at private clinics.
Govind Rao

Pay-for-plasma system looming in B.C. - British Columbia - CBC News - 1 views

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from heather cbs privatization private clinics

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  • Company Canadian Plasma Resources says no chance business would privatize blood donations
  • Mar 21, 2016
  • B.C. could soon have a clinic that would pay clients to donate their plasma.
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  • posters are pinned up in university washrooms and donors collect cash in exchange for their body fluids. Canadian donors get a $25 gift card per donation in Saskatoon.
  • Blood donors typically donate twice a year, while plasma donors can donate once a week, but the process is more complex and takes three times longer than a simple blood draw.
  • Despite these assurances, a move toward pay-for-plasma is facing opposition from the BC Chapter of the Canadian Hemophilia Society and others who decry it as dangerous and wrong to tamper with Canada's voluntary blood/tissue donor model.
  • "Don't worry is not a plan … [pay-for-plasma clinics] continue to target homeless shelters and methdone clinics," said Michael McCarthy, a tainted blood survivor and former vice president of the Canadian Hemophilia Society. He was recently in Ottawa to lobby the federal government to ban pay-for-plasma clinics.
  • "Health Minister Jane Philpott keeps saying that the screening methods used are stringent. That's not true. Private blood brokers have no oversight — none. Not in the U.S. and not here," said Kat Lanteigne of Blood Watch, an activist organization fighting the Iranian company's move into Canada.
  • So far CPR is simply stockpiling the donations as they do not have a buyer. Many other countries ban the sale of human material. Quebec has forbidden the sale of human blood or plasma, and Ontario recently prohibited paying blood or plasma donors.
Heather Farrow

Day attempting again to lead Doctors of B.C.; Activist for private surgery clinics to f... - 0 views

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day bc private clinics privatization medicare doctors

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  • Vancouver Sun Thu Apr 28 2016
  • Déjà vu it is as private surgery centre owner Dr. Brian Day is right back where he was a year ago, once again vying to be president of Doctors of B.C. Day won the election to become the 2016-17 president, but only by one vote. A recount requested by the runner-up, Dr. Alan Ruddiman, went in Ruddiman's favour and he will take the helm of the doctors' lobby group for one year starting in June.
  • Day is running to become the president-elect for the 2017-18 term. He's running against one other candidate, Dr. Trina Larsen Soles, a family doctor in the Kootenay town of Golden. She's vicechair of the Doctors of B.C. board of directors while Day has formerly been president of the Canadian Medical Association. Like Day, Larsen Soles has also run once before for the Doctors of B.C. presidency. She lost to current president Dr. Charles Webb.
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  • Online balloting has opened and will continue until May 15. While Day and Larsen Soles are both repeat contenders, they are distinctly different candidates who will appeal to different segments of the association's 12,000 members.
  • As an orthopedic surgeon, Day should draw more votes from specialists who have long felt the organization is too loaded with primary care doctors. Indeed, the current board of five doesn't include a single specialist and such doctors have long felt that has disadvantaged them when it comes to negotiations over fees with government. Family doctors have made impressive gains in the past two contracts while specialists, such as fee-for-service anesthesiologists, have complained bitterly about their fees and work terms. If Larsen Soles wins, she would become the fourth consecutive family doctor to be president and the second consecutive rural doctor; Ruddiman, the presidentelect, is from Oliver. She said in an interview she expects doctors will naturally want to mull those questions over.
  • "The thing is, people who choose rural medicine are those who are attracted to challenges and change and that's who doctors would be getting if they elect me. "Day, a private medicine pioneer, is hardly a stranger to challenge and change himself. Evidence of that is his seven-year-old lawsuit against the provincial government over whether private surgery clinics can bill patients for publicly insured services normally done in hospitals, usually after waiting long periods. Day said the litigation should not be a factor in the campaign, as it was last year. The oft-deferred sixmonth trial was supposed to begin in June but it has now been delayed to the fall. Day said provincial government lawyers recently asked for another deferral because they need yet more time to prepare. Providing the trial does start in September and lasts six months, as expected, if Day won the presidency, he'd be assuming the helm about four months after the trial ends. But regardless of which side in the trial wins, appeals all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada are expected in the landmark case that could reshape the health care system.
  • Day said only about 60,000 B.C. residents pay out of their own pockets to use 60 or so private surgery clinics. "I'm not saying we should privatize the health care system," he said, but he believes in a hybrid system in which private centres are used far more, as Saskatchewan is doing with its large scale contracting out of cases in which patients are waiting too long for care in hospitals. "Saskatchewan, the birthplace of socialized medicine, has taken a more pragmatic, less ideological approach, and it seems to be working. They are empowering patients to get their treatment in other places (like private surgery and radiology centres)." Larsen Soles said she's interested in the innovations in Saskatchewan but worries that a burgeoning private sector will draw health professionals away from the public sector. Sun health issues reporter pfayerman@postmedia.com twitter: @MedicineMatters
Heather Farrow

Liberals' assisted dying bill is nothing short of a cop-out | rabble.ca - 0 views

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suicide legislation

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  • By Bonnie Burstow | April 26, 2016
  • When it comes to the issue of assisted dying, there is fresh pain and understandable outrage in the country right now because of the recently tabled bill that pulls the proverbial rug out from under the feet of a huge constituency who have been counting on something better. "It's mean," states Linda Jarrett. "There's going to be a lot of unnecessary suffering," objects Rachel Phan. Correspondingly, a huge anti-bill lobbying effort has mobilized.
Cheryl Stadnichuk

Hoskins quietly works on pharmacare - 0 views

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pharmacare ON Hoskins

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  • By almost any measure, Eric Hoskins has had a rough time over the past few months. A chorus of doctors is demanding he be fired as Ontario's health minister because their fees are being trimmed; patients are staging protest rallies over cuts at local hospitals; health-care stakeholders are resisting his plans to dramatically reform the home-care system; political opponents are attacking him for the government's handling of the suicide crisis in the remote First Nations community of Attawapiskat. The list goes on.
  • The reasons Canada is nowhere close to implementing such a plan are simple: stiff opposition from private insurance companies and skittish politicians who don't want anything to do with raising any taxes — even for a sensible and fiscally solid cause — for fear of voter backlash. Over the past year, Hoskins has quietly pushed the pharmacare agenda with provincial and federal health ministers. As a start, he convinced his colleagues at a meeting in January to set up a working group to look into the issue. Now he's stepping up his efforts as Ottawa turns its attention towards the coming negotiations later this year on a new federal-provincial health accord. He wants pharmacare to be a key part of the accord talks.
  • In July, the proposed plan will be high on the agenda when the premiers hold their annual meeting. In October, Hoskins will host the next federal-provincial meeting of health ministers, where he will again lobby hard for a national framework accord on pharmacare. His long-term goal is to have an agreement by July 1, 2017, that says at a minimum Canada will have a national plan in place within five years. To help Hoskins succeed, the public needs to become involved and tell politicians they care deeply about this issue. It will be impossible to get traction on pharmacare unless there's a sustained public call for action. A concerted public campaign would help ensure improved access to prescription drugs for all Ontario and Canadian residents, providing them with the medications they need.
Irene Jansen

CBC TV investigates causes of hospital-acquired infections < Healthcare associated infe... - 2 views

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hai cupe

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  • this video from the show Marketplace on CBC
  • Understaffing, contracting out, and overcrowding are shown to cause dirtier hospitals and more preventable infections.
  • CUPE drew attention to these problems in a research paper and national tour on health care associated infections, and we continue to lobby for public solutions: microbiological cleaning standards, more inhouse cleaning staff, lower hospital occupancy, and mandatory public reporting.
Irene Jansen

The Health Action Lobby (HEAL) - 0 views

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accord reforms website

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  • HEAL has commissioned a report
  • The report “Functional Federalism and the Future of Medicare in Canada”, authored by Mr. Bill Tholl and Mr. Guy Bujold
  • addresses a number of important overarching questions including, what is the appropriate role for the federal government as it relates to health in light of Canada’s decentralized health system? What is the best way to manage the interdependence and independence of Canada’s jurisdictions when it comes to reform of health care delivery? How accountabilities and authorities for health and health care renewal need to be aligned in the future?
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  • The report identifies a number of specific health policy issues which require effective federal and provincial and territorial government leadership. These include: chronic disease management, home care &amp; long-term care, access and wait times, and mental health.
Irene Jansen

telegraphjournal.com - Home care support tops agenda | John Chilibeck - Breaking News, ... - 0 views

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home care nb

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  • government's recent decision to boost wages of home support workers from the minimum wage of $9.50 to $11 an hour. To help with this change, the province is now providing the agencies that assign the workers $16 an hour per client, up from $15 an hour.
  • Price says the decision was a big surprise because it wasn't what the association had wanted. For several years, it's been lobbying the province for a program that would provide more extensive education and training, and better compensation and benefits to the 3,500 home support workers. A consultant's report that the association had hired suggested some of the improvements would cost the province $6.6 million, what Price considers miniscule compared to Social Development's $1-billion budget.
Irene Jansen

Anger grows as letters reach clinic's patients - 0 views

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private clinics

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  • thousands of Ottawa-area residents learn about improperly sterilized instruments at Farazli’s clinic
  • That changed in 2010 when, after years of lobbying by endoscopists themselves, revised provincial laws finally outlined safety standards. It also allowed the body that regulates the medical profession to inspect Ontario’s 270 private surgical clinics, which perform procedures ranging from endoscopies to liposuction and plastic surgery
  • In May, Farazli’s clinic failed an inspection by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. The inspection found the clinic’s equipment, used to conduct gastroscopies and colonoscopies, was not always appropriately cleaned between tests.
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  • The resulting infection scare has laid bare some dirty truths underlying patient assumptions about private clinics.
  • Brohman, who had at least one gastroscopy at the clinic, said she walked in assuming it was regulated like a hospital.
  • Donna Davis, co-chairwoman of Patients for Patient Safety Canada
  • “Every time something like this comes to light and we learn from them, it just makes the care safer. It makes the clinics, physicians and organizations take a second look and say, ‘How can we improve?’”Others say the Ontario college’s inspections of all private surgical clinics have the potential to restore a measure of public faith in such facilities.
Irene Jansen

Chefs, Butlers and Marble Baths - Not Your Average Hospital Room - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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us medical tourism two tier

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  • elite wing on the new penthouse floor of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital. Pampering and décor to rival a grand hotel, if not a Downton Abbey, have long been the hallmark of such “amenities units,” often hidden behind closed doors at New York’s premier hospitals. But the phenomenon is escalating here and around the country, health care design specialists say, part of an international competition for wealthy patients willing to pay extra, even as the federal government cuts back hospital reimbursement in pursuit of a more universal and affordable American medical system.
  • $1,000 to $1,500 a day
  • Many American hospitals offer a V.I.P. amenities floor with a dedicated chef and lavish services,
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  • The rise of medical tourism to glittering hospitals in places like Singapore and Thailand has turned coddling and elegance into marketing necessities
  • The spotlight on luxury accommodations comes at an awkward time for many urban hospitals, now lobbying against cuts in Washington and highlighting their role as nonprofit teaching institutions that serve the poor.
  • In space-starved New York, many regular hospital rooms are still double-occupancy
  • “We pride ourselves on getting anything the patient wants. If they have a craving for lobster tails and we don’t have them on the menu, we’ll go out and get them.”
  • 30 percent of its clientele comes from abroad
  • “I’m perfectly at home here — totally private, totally catered,” she added. “I have a primary-care physician who also acts as ringmaster for all my other doctors. And I see no people in training — only the best of the best.”
  • Increasingly, hospitals serving the merely well-off are joining the amenities race.
  • The conflicts echo those of a century ago, in another era of growing income inequality and financial crisis, said David Rosner, a professor of public health and history at Columbia University. Hospitals, founded as free, charitable institutions to rehabilitate the poor, began seeking paying patients for the first time in the 1890s, he said, restyling themselves in part as “hotels for rich invalids.”
  • “Every generation of hospitals reflects our attitude about health and disease and wealth and poverty,” Professor Rosner said. “Today, they pride themselves on attracting private patients, and on the other hand ask for our tax dollars based upon their older charitable mission. There’s a conflict there at times.”
Irene Jansen

NHS whistleblowers are still being gagged, warns Baby P doctor | BMJ - 0 views

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nhs whistleblower

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  • Patients First (www.patientsfirst.org.uk/), an organisation made up of whistleblowers within the NHS, which she says includes doctors, nurses, and managers.
  • The group aims to lobby the government to create policies and laws that ensure the NHS becomes “more open and accountable.”
Irene Jansen

School Lunches and the Food Industry - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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chains food

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  • Each day, 32 million children in the United States get lunch at schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program, which uses agricultural surplus to feed children.
  • About a quarter of the school nutrition program has been privatized, much of it outsourced to food service management giants like Aramark, based in Philadelphia; Sodexo, based in France; and the Chartwells division of the Compass Group, based in Britain.
  • more and more pay processors to turn these healthy ingredients into fried chicken nuggets, fruit pastries, pizza and the like
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  • Some $445 million worth of commodities are sent for processing each year, a nearly 50 percent increase since 2006.
  • The Center for Science in the Public Interest has warned that sending food to be processed often means lower nutritional value
  • A 2008 study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that by the time many healthier commodities reach students, “they have about the same nutritional value as junk foods.”
  • Roland Zullo, a researcher at the University of Michigan, found in 2008 that Michigan schools that hired private food-service management firms spent less on labor and food but more on fees and supplies, yielding “no substantive economic savings.”
  • privatization was associated with lower test scores, hypothesizing that the high-fat and high-sugar foods served by the companies might be the cause
  • in 2010, Dr. Zullo found that Chartwells was able to trim costs by cutting benefits for workers in Ann Arbor schools, but that the schools didn’t end up realizing any savings
  • Why is this allowed to happen? Part of it is that school authorities don’t want the trouble of overseeing real kitchens. Part of it is that the management companies are saving money by not having to pay skilled kitchen workers.
  • In addition, the management companies have a cozy relationship with food processers, which routinely pay the companies rebates (typically around 14 percent) in return for contracts. The rebates have generally been kept secret from schools, which are charged the full price.
  • Last year, Andrew M. Cuomo, then the New York State attorney general, won a $20 million settlement over Sodexo’s pocketing of such rebates. Other states are following New York and looking into the rebates; the Agriculture Department began its own inquiry in August.
  • the rebate abuses are continuing, now under the name of “prompt payment discounts,” under an Agriculture Department loophole
  • New York State requires rebates to be returned to schools, but the Sodexo settlement shows how unevenly the ban has been enforced.
  • Dorothy Brayley, executive director of Kids First, a nutrition advocacy group in Pawtucket, R.I., told me she encountered resistance in trying to persuade Sodexo to buy from local farmers.
  • The Agriculture Department proposed new rules this year that would set maximum calories for school meals; require more fruits, vegetables and whole grains; and limit trans fats.
  • the most committed foes of the rules are the same corporations
  • Their lobbying persuaded members of Congress to block a once-a-week limit on starchy vegetables and to continue to allow a few tablespoons of tomato sauce on pizza to count as a vegetable serving.
  • One-third of children from the ages of 6 to 19 are overweight or obese.
Irene Jansen

NBNU Launches New Ad Campaign on TV - 0 views

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nb pn rn union ad bargaining

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  • NBNU has developed three new television spots with the slogan “There Is No Substitute For a Registered Nurse.”
Govind Rao

Changes to federal health transfers welcome news for Alberta | Globalnews.ca - 0 views

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from heather accord Alberta transfers

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  • February 12, 2014
  • By Patricia Kozicka &nbsp;Global News
  • EDMONTON – Alberta will receive more new money to spend on health care in 2014-2015, thanks to changes to the Canada Health Transfer program.The federal money that’s allocated to provinces will now be calculated using a different formula than in the past: one that’s based on population. It’s something the province started lobbying for in 2011.
Govind Rao

International Women's Day < Women | CUPE - 0 views

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  • Tell your MP why health care is a critical issue for women as workers, unpaid caregivers and patients – and fight the $36 billion planned federal cuts. Contact mmccarthy@cupe.ca for a lobby kit and find out more at cupe.ca/health-care-public-solutions. &nbsp;&nbsp;
Govind Rao

RPNs visit Queen's Park to help lead positive change for health care | RPNAO - 0 views

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from heather Ontario nursing lobby

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  • MISSISSAUGA, Nov. 22, 2013 – Queen’s Park served as the backdrop on November 18 as a group of Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) met and shared ideas with Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) and other government officials to help strengthen Ontario’s health care system.
Govind Rao

Health week: Fourteen fractured systems - 0 views

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from heather accord

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  • By Wayne Kondro | Apr 4, 2014
  • The spectre of inequitable access looms over the Canadian health care system as a result of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s unwillingness to renegotiate the intergovernmental health accords, experts and health groups charged after this week’s expiry of the 2004 10-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care. Unveiling a barrage of criticism, groups ranging from the College of Family Physicians of Canada to the 41-member Health Action Lobby (HEAL) decried the federal government’s lack of leadership on the health file.
Govind Rao

Ontario nurses raise concerns at Queen's Park - Infomart - 0 views

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from heather ontario accord nurses

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  • Burlington Post Wed Apr 23 2014
  • The cold morning did not deter 120 registered nurses (RNs) from participating in the 14th Annual Queen's Park Day on Feb. 27 in Toronto. Hosted by the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO), the event laid a significant foundation in my career as I had an opportunity to represent the Halton chapter of RNAO, meeting with several politicians to lobby about pressing issues that Ontarians face every day. At the networking breakfast, my colleague and I had an opportunity to meet with Burlington MPP Jane McKenna and Dufferin-Caledon MPP Sylvia Jones. We used this time to talk about RNAO's vision for nursing and health care.
  • Throughout the day, RNs were focused on four key issues: renewal of Canada's Health Accord; restructuring the health system; increasing minimum wage; and investing in registered nurses.
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