It’s part of the government’s push to increase community care options and ease health system pressures. While midwives say the step is welcome, they add government regulations are still preventing them from practicing within their full scope.…
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It's the first province to adopt minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in an effort to improve nurses’ working conditions and patient care. The model, based on nurse-to-patient ratios in Calif. and Australia, will allow nurses to spend more…
The report finds healthcare workers feared for their personal safety during the pandemic because of a lack of protective equipment and the absence of any systematic support and…
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It’s part of a plan to increase the sharing of test results, such as lab results, with patients so they can be more involved in their ongoing care. The provincial patient portal,…
Build Back Better surveyed the population to explore how the pandemic affected four areas of health equity: housing access, food security, mental health and substance use. The early findings about housing and food security in the province…
Syphilis made a global resurgence over the last five years and Canada's an outlier among wealthy nations in its rate of increase. The incidence of babies born with syphilis reached 26 per 100,000 live births in 2021, up from two in 2017, a 13-…
The province is betting the system will lead to shorter wait times. Instead of faxing, emailing or mailing requests to a surgeon, primary care providers will use the Ocean eReferrals system to send their requests for surgical consultations. The…
The Women's Mobile Primary Care Program aims to deliver healthcare to women in a culturally appropriate manner. The health unit's van teams doctors, nurses and social workers with Indigenous knowledge keepers, elders and healers to…
The Nurses Association of New Brunswick will expedite the process for nurses from other provinces to get their credentials recognized. Applicants will still be required to provide government issued identification but registration and verification…
Universities and family medicine residency programs are working to increase the number of available positions. Still,…
In response to a national shortage of physicians who can administer anesthesia during surgeries, Family Practice Anesthetists (FPA) are being used in Ont. and B.C. They’re family physicians who are certified to administer anesthesia during…
In Alta., any physician paid a recruitment incentive is placed in rural towns for an average of five years. Once these agreements lapse, many move to urban areas and this was among the reasons physicians left Lethbridge. The municipality…
The results showed that 51% of participants experienced loneliness, and 30% faced social isolation. Meanwhile, 42% suffered from depression and 34% experienced symptoms of…
There are versions of these programs in Canada but some experts say we need more of them to ease our own healthcare system's bottleneck.…
This is one of the first studies to link the characteristics of the environment related to car use and the risk of developing diabetes in different…
The pilot resulted in the number of patients being seen almost doubling since 2021, increasing from 56 patients to 83 patients per week. Team members' suggestions included revising forms physicians are completing, streamlining clerical workflow,…