The British Medical Association suggests that family doctors cap their number of patient appointments at 25 per day, a proposal which sparked a debate in the country's medical community. The…
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Over the next five years, the funds will aim to shift the delivery of care from hospitals to community health centres and improve access to palliative and end-of-life care. The deal also sets out what the province will do with the first…
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The Dean of Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen's University believes Canada’s health system is in dire need of an overhaul because health needs have changed, but the system hasn’t changed with them. He says wait times aren’t the core problem,…
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The province currently treats mental health and addictions care as two distinct issues with separate services. The Manitoba Mental Health and Addictions Strategy report…
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Pilot program from U.S. health insurance company trains nurses to assist, engage with opioid addicts
In the U.S., healthcare company Aetna rolled out a pilot program, Guardian Angel, to…
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Some of world's top cardiologists compared the impact that sugar has on health to how tobacco and smoking affected people over 50 years ago. They agree that banning…
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There’s increasing recognition of the difficulty of treating patients’ immediate health concerns while their overall well-being is affected by social determinants of health. This is why researchers from the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy…
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The New York University School of Medicine launched an online resource city governments can use to identify and help develop policies to improve the health needs of their communities. The City Health…
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The Ministerial Advisory Board will advise the federal health minister on matters related to the…
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A guideline compiled by CMAJ suggests there's no clinical benefit to primary care practitioners conducting vision screening in older adults. It contends that as most provinces provide seniors with free access to checkups with vision specialists,…
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Early results from a pilot project in England that offers psychological assessments to patients with physical health problems found it cut hospital admissions by 75%. NHS described the strategy as a "game-changer" for mental healthcare and it…
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The study estimates Canadians’ unhealthy eating habits amount to an annual price tag of $13.8 billion in direct and indirect healthcare costs. The direct costs include visiting the doctor or hospital and medication, while indirect ones are…
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The country’s Ministry of Health developed a package of online resources aimed at getting children aged five and under to play regularly and have quality sleep. The Active Play resources communicate the importance for young children to sit less,…
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The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions' list of 10 case studies looks at what's working globally to reduce low-value care, or patient care that provides no…
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The Conference Board of Canada's Canadian Alliance for Sustainable Health Care launched the National Pharmacare Initiative to co-ordinate research, dialogue and consensus-building activities…
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This new system includes indicators to show whether a prescription may have contributed to a patient being admitted to hospital. The indicators will link prescribing data in primary care to hospital admissions in a medication dashboard, allowing…