Contents contributed and discussions participated by Irene Jansen
Deb Matthews' dirty little secret in health care: Hepburn | Toronto Star - 0 views
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tens of thousands of Ontario patients are going without the treatments or services they need to function as best they can at home or in their communities.
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Matthews, who has been health minister since 2009, has watched over her ministry as it quietly allowed vital services and funding in rehabilitation services — physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech-language therapy, dietitians and social work — to be slashed across the province.
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In recent years, hospitals from Ottawa to Toronto and Windsor have closed or drastically reduced their in-patient and outpatient therapy departments
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Doug Allan. Secrecy, Privatization: the Chemotherapy Scandal - 0 views
Tories deliver a hollow boast on health-care spending - The Globe and Mail - 1 views
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The government of Stephen Harper has taken a wash-my-hands-of-it approach to health care for years.
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in recent years, Ottawa’s only health-care interventions have been hostile ones: The ill-considered cuts in access to health-care services for refugees, the muzzling of scientists and researchers, and the slashing of jobs and budgets at Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada.
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The only health-related measure in which Ottawa seems to take an interest any more is transferring money to the provinces, something it has a legal obligation to do.
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CUPE Ontario | EMS employers' "interference unwelcome" say paramedics opposed to a regu... - 0 views
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is inappropriate for emergency service (EMS) employers to weigh-in to support college regulation for paramedics "when it is an issue for paramedics themselves to settle.
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This is in addition to the oversight of the ministry of health, base hospitals and EMS employers.
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The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) collectively represent 6500 certified Ontario paramedics already extensively regulated under the Ambulance Act
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Provincial panel to shine a spotlight on the role of the RPN | RPNAO - 1 views
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The Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario (RPNAO) is pleased to announce the launch of a new provincial project titled: ‘It’s All about Synergies: Understanding the Role of the RPN in Ontario’s Health Care System’.
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This research and consultation project, which is expected to be completed by December, 2013
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In addition to producing a final report outlining the findings, the working panel will also lead the development of a set of resources that nurses, nurse employers and educators will be able to utilize to help enhance their understanding of the scope and appropriate engagement of the RPN role in Ontario’s health care system
Improving Value at Hospitals Through Process Management Conference Board of Canada Marc... - 1 views
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Using five case studies, the report demonstrates how process management techniques, which have been used successfully in other sectors, can improve health care outcomes and reduce costs in Canada.
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Lean and Six Sigma
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Hurley Medical Center
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P3 hospital poll results unveiled | Local | News | The Kingston Whig-Standard - 0 views
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A total of 9,885 people voted in the 55 polls and 96% were in favour of the publicly-operated option, the option that the Kingston Health Coalition is espousing.
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Providence Care got the go-ahead from the province for the proposed 270-bed facility in March 2011. Infrastructure Ontario is now reviewing the requests for proposal from three private companies. Construction may begin later this year with an opening date in 2016 or 2017. The private aspects of the project are the financing, design and construction of the hospital plus a 30-year contract to cover maintenance responsibilities.
Groups call for blanket coverage for medical imaging (Montreal Gazette) - 1 views
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However, Quebec radiologists are against universal coverage for the tests.
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Patients should have access based on their health needs, not their financial means, Alain Vadeboncoeur, head of Quebec Doctors for Medicare (Médecins québécois pour le régime public)
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the wait times for ultrasounds, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and CT scans can be as long as two years in hospitals, while the same services are available in less than 24 hours in private clinics. For patients without private insurance, MRIs done outside of a hospital can cost between $700 and $1,000.
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PQ wants new hospital for Quebec City - 0 views
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Premier Pauline Marois announced plans for a new hospital, scrapping a Liberal plan to refurbish Quebec City’s Hôtel-Dieu, the oldest hospital in Canada.
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The previous Liberal government was committed to a $1-billion refurbishing of the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital in Old Quebec, at first considering, then abandoning, the idea of building it as a public-private partnership, as is the case for the Montreal’s two new teaching hospitals, affiliated with McGill University and the Université de Montréal.
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the hospital’s administrators have asked the government to consider a new hospital on vacant land adjacent to the city’s Enfant Jésus hospital.
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NHS reforms: From today the Coalition has put the NHS up for grabs - Telegraph - 0 views
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Today the Health And Social Care Act – in other words, the Coalition’s highly controversial NHS reforms – comes into effect.
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For the first time in NHS history, the majority of treatments will be put out to tender: private organisations will be competing to win contracts to provide NHS healthcare.
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It wasn’t until a few weeks before the law came into effect that those missing pieces became available, when the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, quietly announced the new regulations and attempts were made to push them through parliament. What was now clear was that the regulations effectively forced CCGs to put all services out to tender to the private sector and forbade them to favour the NHS as the provider.
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Comparative Performance of Private and Public Healthcare Systems in Low- and Middle-Inc... - 1 views
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Studies evaluated in this systematic review do not support the claim that the private sector is usually more efficient, accountable, or medically effective than the public sector
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Summary by Anna Marriott, Oxfam Access and responsiveness * Studies that measured utilization by income levels tended to find the private sector predominately serves the more affluent. In Colombo, Sri Lanka, where a universal public health service exists, the private sector provided 72% of childhood immunisations for the wealthiest, but only 3% for the poorest. * Waiting times are consistently reported to be shorter in private facilities and a number of studies found better hospitality, cleanliness and courtesy and availability of staff in the private sector. Quality * Available studies find diagnostic accuracy, adherence to medical management standards and prescription practices are worse in the private sector. * Prescribing subtherapeutic doses, failure to provide oral rehydration salts, and prescribing of unnecessary antibiotics were more likely in the private sector, although there were exceptions. * Higher rates of potentially unnecessary procedures, particularly C-sections, were reported at private facilities. In South Africa for example, 62% of women delivering in the private sector had C-sections, compared with 18% in the public sector. * Two country studies found a lack of drug availability and service provision at public facilities, while surveys of patients' perceptions on care quality in the public and private sector provided mixed results. Patient outcomes * Public sector provision was associated with higher rates of treatment success for tuberculosis and HIV as well as vaccination. In South Korea for example, TB treatment success rates were 52% in private and 80% in public clinics. Similar figures were found for HIV treatment in Botswana. Accountability, transparency and regulation * While national statistics collected from public sector clinics vary considerably in quality, private healthcare systems tended to lack published data on outcomes altogether. Public-private partnerships also lacked data. * Several reports ob
The Conservative Budget is Harmful to Canadians' Health | Libby Davies - MP for Vancouv... - 0 views
Lucian Leape Institute at NPSF Releases Report Urging Emphasis on Joy, Meaning, and Wor... - 0 views
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The Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation today released a report focusing on the health and safety of the health care workforce
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Through the Eyes of the Workforce: Creating Joy, Meaning, and Safer Health Care contends that patient safety is inextricably linked to health care workers’ safety and well-being because caregivers who suffer disrespect, humiliation, or physical harm are more likely to make errors or fail to follow safety practices.
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“Most health care organizations have done little to support the common contention that ‘people are our most important asset.’”
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Les libéraux reprochent au gouvernement son inaction - 0 views
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Le gouvernement Marois n'en fait pas assez pour défendre les intérêts du Québec dans le dossier des transferts fédéraux en santé
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Le leader parlementaire du PLQ, Jean-Marc Fournier, a reproché à Pauline Marois de ne pas avoir abordé le sujet lors des deux rencontres qu'elle a eues avec Stephen Harper depuis son élection.
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Pauline Marois s'est défendue en mentionnant que son ministre des Finances, Nicolas Marceau, avait demandé que les transferts en santé soient maintenus lors d'une conférence interprovinciale. Elle a ajouté que M. Marceau avait «fait des représentations à trois reprises à cet égard».
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