Reading Time: 4 minutes Exiting health-care management and focusing only on governance is key to health-care reform
Tag: Health accord
Private facilities bring much needed competition to health care system
Reading Time: 4 minutes The competition will pressure governments to improve the public system
Frailty a better gauge for health-care funding
Reading Time: 4 minutes New Health Accord should reject per capita funding model – and consider the precise and evidence-based concept of frailty instead
Moving Canada toward a true health care accord
Reading Time: 3 minutes Health minister Jane Philpott has an opportunity to improve the health care system. But will she take it?
More money for health care is not the answer
Reading Time: 3 minutes Any new accord needs to address particular regional concerns with a distinct contract between Ottawa and each province
Canada needs to better manage health care system’s workforce
Reading Time: 3 minutes A new health accord must include the establishment of a dedicated health workforce agency
The death of timely health care in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes The current system forces Canadian patients to wait too long for medically necessary care
Integrate physical and mental health services for better care
Reading Time: 3 minutes Individuals with both psychiatric and medical illnesses can’t get the care they need it because of the way health services are delivered
Four steps to improving health care in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes Achieving these four goals can lead to the next, necessary evolution in health care
Future of Canadian healthcare system at a crossroads
Reading Time: 4 minutes Doctors of BC election for president a battle between which values – profit or public good – will guide the profession