As the first of its kind in Canada, the British Columbia Cultural Safety and Humility Standard provides guidance to health and social services organizations…
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L’approche est présente en Ont., en Angleterre et en Australie. Elle vise à rencontrer des patients qui vivent des moments éprouvants, mais pas des individus en crise. L’Université de Sherbrooke a étudié l’efficacité du programme et a constaté…
Two dozen patients in Calgary and Edmonton with myeloma were trained by oncology nurses to give themselves chemotherapy treatment at home. The drug's administered with a subcutaneous injection, the same way diabetics sometimes self-administer…
To reduce the province’s 95,000-person primary care wait list, the funding model will see three family doctor clinics being paid for the number of patients they serve, as opposed to only for services provided, Currently, family physicians in N.S…
More MRI and CT scans were completed in the province than ever before. The province performed 296,211 MRIs in the 2021-2022 fiscal year, up from the record of 252,527 MRIs performed two years ago in 2019-2020. Since 2016-17, the province saw wait…
The Health Strategy for Women and Islanders who are Gender Diverse outlines priorities in addressing…
The provincial government is providing Counselling Alberta, a new division of the Calgary Counselling Centre focused on providing support to in rural communities, with $6.75 million…
Data to prove this trend isn’t yet available, but doctors across the country are seeing patients with more advanced stages of cancer than usual - a phenomenon they’re attributing to the COVID-19 pandemic. A senior medical director for Nova Scotia…
The health network’s looking to engage its staff, physicians and New Brunswickers in recruiting healthcare workers. The Horizon Referral Reward focuses on the recruitment of RNs…
The University of Manitoba-led study found that living close to a trail used for walking, running and cycling leads to an 8% reduction in the risk factors for…
Disability advocates are hoping for changes in N.B. when it comes to accessibility of mammograms. They say there are barriers to accessing mammograms which unfairly subject those with disabilities to increased risk and potentially worse health…
The rising costs of nearly every aspects of daily living due to record inflation is taking its toll. The Leger survey shows 38% of respondents cite money as being the biggest source of stress for the fifth time in eight years, nearly twice as…
A doctor at a rural ER usually sees every patient in person, day and night. But for three weeks this spring, two rural ERs were staffed by only one doctor on call 24 hours a day who remained on standby overnight to take phone calls from nurses,…
Almost all health workers in the study felt the pandemic impacted their mental health and added stress to their work-life balance. In the fourth wave of the…
Instead of giving new prescriptions or recommending lifestyle changes to a patient who’s having difficulty making ends meet, physicians in an Alta. health network are asking patients about their financial circumstances to adapt the care and…
The funding for CHEO’s National Newcomer Navigation Network (N4) aims to help…