The CFHI will be working with seven additional organizations to spread Embedding Palliative Approaches to Care (EPAC). EPAC helps staff in long term care to identify residents who could…
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- NBHC Care Experience
- NBHC Population Health
Dr. Daniel Dutton, a teacher at a Saint John medical school, suggests spending on social programs can impact outcomes more than traditional health spending. He previously led a study…
- NBHC Care Experience
While the B.C. government had $75 million earmarked in its budget for respite care and adult day programs to ease the pressure on family members supporting seniors in their homes, the delivery of home care and day activity programs to support…
- NBHC Sustainability
People who are alcohol dependent will be assisted by new Alcohol Care Teams and smokers will be helped to stop in a drive to see all smokers encouraged to quit. The program comes alongside prevention initiative to curb obesity and diabetes to…
- NBHC Care Experience
CMAJ points out that while the Canada Health Act guarantees the portability of care across the country, the piecemeal nature of health record storage presents barriers to the sharing of data and results in duplication of diagnostic tests. Even…
- NBHC Care Experience
The award-winning program is designed to help seniors in P.E.I. to stay in their own home for longer to reduce ER overcrowding. One of the…
- NBHC Care Experience
Health Canada will contribute $2.3 million over four years towards an opioid stewardship program in Saskatchewan. The project aims to raise awareness and develop new approaches to chronic pain management by promoting appropriate opioid…
- NBHC Sustainability
During the 2016-2017 fiscal year, researchers at the University of Waterloo examined that prescribing habits of Ontario family doctors with regards to oral antibiotics. It found that 39% of late-career physicians - those practicing 25 years or…
- NBHC Sustainability
Research from the University of Waterloo suggests that if Ontario was to expand the scope of practice for pharmacists to bring them more in line with…
- NBHC Care Experience
This First Nations Health Council video outlines the history of the Tripartite First Nations Health Governance Structure in B.C., the agreements that led to its creation, and the work in transforming outcomes through service improvements in…
- NBHC Sustainability
Doctors Nova Scotia says family physicians are increasingly finding their role in the province's healthcare system undervalued and potentially marginalized. The…
- NBHC Care Experience
Patients in the U.K. will be given the option of "digital first" primary care as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. The plan forecasts that primary care and outpatient…
- NBHC Sustainability
A report from the Broadbent Institute contends there's nearly universal appeal for the idea…
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Twenty-six organizations were involved in a two-year workplace mental health pilot project designed by Mindful Employer Canada and the Ontario government. It included case studies, roundtable…
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The Globe and Mail’s André Picard explains how the annual "flu surge" reminds him how hospitals have a chronic capacity problem. Fundamentally, he believes, Canada’s health system problem isn’t ER overcrowding - it’s hospital overcrowding. The…
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N.B. Premier Blaine Higgs met with the nurses’ union to find out how soon 25 nurse practitioners could be hired this year to reduce the list. The average number of people on the wait list for a primary care provider over the last two years was 17…