Last Oct., B.C. pharmacists gained the ability to administer more vaccines and renew or adjust prescriptions for a wider range of drugs. The move aimed to ease the pressures on B.C.'s healthcare system, including the ongoing shortage of family…
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Boston Consulting Group found five million young professionals in Canada are in need of mental health support, advising businesses and organizations to invest more into employee well-being. Work was found to be the number one source of stress for…
The N.S. government’s looking for any way to get more people access to care. With physician assistants (PAs) working in emergency care and orthopedics and a new training program in development at Dalhousie University, the health authority is…
Health Canada found 29% of teenagers in Grades 7 to 12 have tried an e-cigarette. That number is down slightly…
Research shows 20% of older adults who were able to walk before being admitted to hospital were no longer able to walk without assistance upon discharge. They may be referred to rehabilitation services at that point. The program aims to meet…
Focusing more on same-day surgeries is a growing trend in Canada as it frees up in-patient care beds for other acute patients and appeals to patients because they allow them to recover safely at home. As a result of a collaboration between units…
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been a controversial issue since the 1990s, when a major study found an association with higher rates of breast cancer and stroke. Experts now say that study overstated the risks. Researchers reviewed recent…
The province estimates approximately 4,800 people will benefit from cross-border cancer treatment over the next two years. Starting May 29th, it'll send up to 50 breast and prostate cancer patients per week to one of two clinics in Wash. to…
Nearly every participant in a study of a Vancouver safer supply program involving opioid-dispensing machines continued to use illicit drugs but they used less, they experienced fewer overdoses and they reported improvements in health and well-…
Weeks after B.C. made prescription birth control publicly funded, women are flooding healthcare clinics requesting IUDs, leading to waiting times of several months because of a shortage of clinicians available to insert them. The province became…
According to Ken McGeorge, a retired career healthcare CEO, policymakers in N.B. have the challenge of figuring out how to use the wealth of information created by the New Brunswick Health Council to translate it into actionable data. The data…
The investment comes on the heels of a recruitment push as the province attempts to integrate more staff into its healthcare system and to improve their workplace environment. An additional $350,000 will be used to give doctors access to Cortext…
Following a pilot project at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Fredericton, patients with mental distress coming to other Horizon EDs will have access to a virtual addiction and mental health team and/or a psychiatrist. They’ll be…
There will be 14 clinics the government describes as new or strengthened. The expansion includes collaborative family practice teams, primary care clinics, after-hours clinics, urgent care centres and urgent treatment centres. The province is…
With the Health Facilities Act, the province will be looking into moving cataract surgeries and possibly other surgical procedures where the need is high. A pilot program has cataract surgeries being performed already in private clinics in…
Fifty-five nurses were hired into the Manitoba government's provincial nursing float pool since its inception late last year, bringing nurses back into the public system to work shifts in rural and northern communities. The pool provides nurses…