The province is making changes to allow psychiatrists to bill for virtual indirect care as part of a psychiatric consultation. Currently, only time spent with a patient is counted toward virtual care billing code time requirements. Time taken with
N.W.T.’s health minister introduced Bill 40 in 2021 to allow medical practitioners licensed elsewhere in Canada to provide virtual care to NWT residents from beyond the territory. The change would let territorial physicians make referrals to
An estimated 6.1 million people in England are on wait lists for non-emergency hospital care after being referred to a specialist by their GP. The hospital will focus on cutting wait times for routine care, with staff briefed to prioritize patients
Stakeholders can provide comments or take a survey relating to demographic questions and about how emergency care services will fit into the overall health system over the next five years. The provincial government directed AHS EMS to formulate a
In reviewing its pandemic response, the B.C. government won't be allowing discussion of decisions made by either the government or the provincial health officer. Also excluded from the debate will be any decisions relating to the economy, including
The survey, conducted on the second anniversary of the pandemic, suggests 40% of people aged 18 to 34 agree their mental health is at a breaking point. A clinical psychologist explains COVID-19 impacts were felt more acutely by young adults who had
Provincially, the number of fentanyl deaths roughly doubled almost every year since 2011, when there were only six. Year-end results show 1,758 Albertans died from a drug overdose last year, the most since the province began tracking the issue in
These homes are first of four supportive house facilities that the province and the City of Nanaimo will create. The partnership will see community health workers embedded at the site and residents will have on-site services such as life-skills
The data covers patient trends in access to virtual care in Ont., Man., Sask., Alta. and B.C. and highlights the shift to virtual care for physicians during the first year of the pandemic. While virtual care accounted for between 2% and 11% of the
A recent increase in fatal sodium nitrite poisonings has some health experts calling for stricter regulation of the substance. Sodium nitrite is a white salt commonly used in curing meat but it’s also being used as a poison in suicides. Ont. saw at