All Canadian jurisdictions should routinely collect data on racial and Indigenous identity to address inequities in healthcare and the best way to do that is during the health card application or renewal process, a group of experts says. Black…
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The University of Ottawa study found 18% of the participants between the ages of 18 to 39 had a 20% to 30% loss in kidney function, which is associated with a 1.4-fold increase in…
The redeveloped clinic offers an advanced plastic surgery procedure room, which is the first of its kind in Canada. This procedure room will allow 85% of plastic surgery trauma patients, who would’ve previously needed one of the centre's main…
The study found cases are expected to soar from 529 million to 1.3 billion by 2050 mostly because there’s no mitigation strategy to tackle or reduce…
The Newcomer Health Hub (NHH) provides evidence-based, culturally-specific health information for newcomers and refugees. It also educates community members and frontline healthcare workers on…
The study showed that 4.7% of people who used cannabis in the past year were at risk of addiction. StatCan found several factors contributed to a cannabis user's increased risk of dependence, including being male, between the ages of 18 and 24,…
The Care Coordination Centre at the QEII Health Sciences Centre gives healthcare teams information on bed availability, the status of diagnostic tests and procedures, wait lists, ambulance offloads and patient transfers. The provincial government…
The bill allows the N.B. government to join a class-action lawsuit, led by B.C. against opioid manufacturers and distributors, to recover healthcare costs related to the opioid crisis. The act also enables the province to launch its own suit. N.B…
The agency is offering interpretation services in 23 Indigenous languages. This is available to all patients receiving care from AHS healthcare teams. The addition of Indigenous languages to AHS’ translation service builds off more than 240…
The report said the summer season will likely be "precarious and exhausting months" for healthcare workers in ERs, with impacts ranging from lengthy wait-times to hospital closures. The report referred to the crisis as a "perpetual cycle" that’s…
Clinique Médicale Access Medical Clinic, which has Marie-Claude Bourdages as its family physician, would like to give family doctors access to 10,000 New Brunswickers by bringing on two more family doctors. The clinic is in negotiations with…
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine University (NOSM) teaches medicine, along with a few things that could influence where doctors choose to practice. The university recruits students from rural communities and 90% of its student body comes…
- NBHC Engagement
The Still Calling campaign aims to retain and recruit more nurses by painting the career in a better light. The New Brunswick Nurses Union (NBNU) says the last few years were challenging, pointing to the…
The roadmap reflects the input of 23 expert reviewers, Health Canada being one of them. Top of the list is a recommendation to do better data collection, analysis and reporting. The experts say this should involve greater consistency under a…
The William Osler Health System, which operates hospitals in Brampton and Etobicoke, drastically cut colorectal cancer screening, diagnosis and surgeon referral wait times by combining a pair of programs to streamline how patients are processed.…
The Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub is a space for people in healthcare to collaborate on providing better healthcare. The space allows partnerships with healthcare staff, researchers,…