Canada Healthcare System

• Feds will invest more in health care, but need to see results: Trudeau

  All 13 provincial and territorial health ministers are expected to meet with their federal counterpart, Jean-Yves Duclos, today and tomorrow in Vancouver.

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  Nov 7
  
• Nearly 30% of Canadians report ‘chronic difficulty’ accessing health care: Poll

  Amid staffing shortages and ER closures, 9 million Canadians say it was difficult or impossible to access key health services, according to a new national survey

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  Sep 7
  
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• ‘Dying on wait-lists’: Could private health-care solve Canada’s ER ‘crisis’?

  While some experts consider privatization a possible solution to staffing shortages and long wait times, others see it as a threat to public care.

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  Sep 6
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• Gender pay gap narrowing in Canada’s health sector. Will COVID reverse that progress?

  A global analysis by the WHO and ILO shows women health-care workers face a larger pay gap compared to other economic sectors, earning an average of 24 per cent less than men.

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  Jul 13
• ‘Behaviour changed’: Emergency hospital visits fell 50% in early days of pandemic

  Service restrictions, behaviour change and fear of COVID-19 likely contributed to the decline in emergency visits across Canada, doctors and health experts say.

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  Nov 24, 2020
• Coronavirus has made health-care shortfalls ‘obvious’ to Canadians: poll

  As the COVID-19 pandemic pushes hospitals to the limits in many parts of the country, nearly 90 per cent of Canadians feel there is a need to increase health-care facilities.

  Health

  Nov 11, 2020