Tag Archives: health care

Government Relations Officer, ONA

The ideal candidate must be passionate about all things political; strategic; and be able to articulate ONA’s positions in a compelling way to current government and all opposition parties and work within the boundaries ...

Charts: How Ontario, Canada compare in international health survey

An international study found Canadians are facing longer health-care wait times and are less satisfied overall than residents of 10 other comparable countries — and among the Canadian provinces, Ontario ranks in the midd ...

Report ‘calls into question’ accuracy of Ontario’s complaints about Canada Health Transfer

Ontario can't legitimately complain the federal share of health funding is decreasing unless it increases its own health-care funding more than previously planned, a report found. ...

Proposed health overhaul would scrap CCACs to ‘ease’ patient access to home care

Should changes be approved, Community Care Access Centres would be scrapped in favour of system health minister says is more efficient ...

Nurses’ association wants federal leaders to weigh in on health care

Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario CEO Doris Grinspun says her organization's election policy platform is trying to reclaim health care as a federal and provincial responsibility ...

Job of home-care nurses changing as province shifts care into the community

Local president representing 80 striking home-care nurses in Niagara, Norfolk who want wage increases says demand for care and type of career needed has changed over past few years ...

Health ministry to put $501 million into Milton hospital expansion

Project is a public-private partnership run by a group led by Plenary Health ...

OMA president surprised by communities considered in ‘high need’ of family physician

Health and Long-Term Care Minister Eric Hoskins says list of where family physicians can set up a new group practice is 'dynamic' and based on rurality, physician-to-patient ratio and input from LHINs ...

Report: Clarity needed around funding in home and community care sector

A report released Thursday by a provincially convened expert group makes 16 recommendations to improve the home and community care sectors in Ontario ...

Government taking steps to allow nurses to prescribe meds

Health Minister Eric Hoskins told the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario that consultations on the issue will start this spring ...

Ontario’s aging population could put a serious strain on health care, report says

A report from the C.D. Howe Institute says for the province to fund its own social programs over the next 50 years, it would have to increase taxes by 70 per cent. ...

Seen: Unifor health workers protest across the province

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Happening: Ontario commits $3 million to fight Ebola in Africa

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Health-care group applauds new national plan to fight dementia

Alzheimer Society applauds commitment by provinces and Ottawa to set up a national strategy to cope with dementia. ...

Arbitrator awards small wage hike to OPSEU hospital workers

About 9,600 OPSEU workers at 50 Ontario hospitals awarded 1.4-per-cent wage increases in each year of a two-year contract. ...

Health-care groups call on Hoskins to ban medical tourism

Medical groups send an open letter to Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins demanding an immediate ban on 'inbound medical tourism.' ...

CMA calls for national seniors-care strategy

Poll done for Canadian Medical Association shows that 95 per cent of Canadian baby boomers back a national seniors-care strategy that would see more elderly patients cared for outside of a hospital setting. ...

Heard: Bondfield hired for $125.7 million Hawkesbury hospital project

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Heard: Cancer Care Ontario signs third partnership with native groups

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Heard: Unions for doctors, teachers congratulate Liberals

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Heard: Nurses group disappointed health care not debated

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Wynne guarantees doctor or nurse for all Ontarians by 2018

About 93 per cent of Ontarians have access to a doctor or nurse practitioner, with Wynne promising to reach the remaining seven per cent of the population at a cost of $20 million. ...

Too early to say if fee-for-service reduction is working

Ontario's changes to the fee-for-service doctor-payment system is showing mixed results, says a new University of Calgary report. ...

Matthews announces east-end Toronto hospital expansion

The Health Minister, thronged by shouting children, announced $19.6 million in funding for a new eight-storey patient-care wing in Toronto East General Hospital. ...

Dean: Liberals’ policies deserve recognition, so do public servants

Good news is getting the cold shoulder as the Liberal government moves ahead on policy fronts in education, health and governance, columnist Tony Dean writes. ...

‘Referendum’ finds 99.6 per cent support public hospitals

Ontario Health Coalition says the vast majority of respondents to its 'referendum' favour public hospitals over private clinics. ...

Provinces to save up to $230 million in drug costs

Provincial officials have struck a deal with generic pharmaceutical makers on four more drugs, and are in talks with brand-name manufacturers to cut costs on 37 drugs. ...

Health agency unveils new patient survey

Health Quality Ontario announces a new patient-experience survey pilot project so health organizations can learn how patients view the quality of care they get. ...

CUPE to speak out against move toward private surgeries

President of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions is expected to warn committee of the dangers of private-service delivery, including higher monetary costs and deaths. ...

Matthews announces cataract, colonoscopy procedures moving to community health centres

Opponents of the move say this represents an opening of the floodgates to privatized health care, in which clinics will charge for services already covered by OHIP. ...

Seen: Matthews kicks off estimates committee appearance

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Ontario Health Coalition raises alarms over push to move care out of hospitals

But Deb Matthews says it's all part of the plan to get common medical issues treated outside of hospitals. ...

Happening: Ombudsman health oversight wanted

France Gelinas of the NDP wants to give ombudsman oversight of health-care system, something Andre Marin has also asked for. ...