The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) brought in Dr. Denis Lennox to share his insight on transforming rural medicine. He toured northern Ontario and says he believes some strategies used in Australia to train more general practitioners
Manitobans pay more for healthcare services than they do in most provinces so the province is reorganizing its healthcare bureaucracy and shifting responsibilities between health organizations. Manitoba Health will no longer provide services directly
The NHS will hire 300 employment coaches who will find patients jobs to keep them out of hospital. It assumes people with work work tend to be in better health, visit their GP less and are less likely to require hospital treatment. The specialists
The nurse-owned, nurse-run Centre Médiacl TaL in Candiac, Que., has 14,000 clients and it’s the only clinic of its kind in the province. It operates like a club. It has a patient-centred philosophy where clients are treated as equal partners in
The national benchmark for hip replacement from booking time to the operating table is 281 days. In Nova Scotia, 90% of patients get hip replacement surgery within 231 days of booking at Cape Breton Regional Hospital. But at hospitals in the QEII
Healthcare 101 is an online information series developed to help Albertans better understand their healthcare system. AHS enlisted several departments to create and design of this first topic, Healthcare Basics for Albertans, which outlines the
The ParticipACTION report gave kids a D+ grade for their overall level of physical activity. This marks a slight improvement from the past four reports where they received a D-minus. Researchers found only 35% of children from the ages of 5 to 17
In advance of Ottawa’s national poverty-reduction strategy, Campaign 2000, an organization dedicated to ending child poverty, reports federal ridings with the most child and family poverty are also home to the highest proportions of Indigenous
Federal data indicate the opioid crisis claimed nearly 4,000 lives in Canada in 2017, mainly from fentanyl overdoses. The death toll was 34% higher than 2016, with most deaths involving men aged 30 to 39. Almost 90% of the deaths in 2017 were in
The health authority's family presence policy is in effect throughout its institutions, from long term care centres to hospitals. The policy was developed with feedback from patients, residents and their families. It means and end to set visiting