Public Health Ontario statistics were quietly updated last week to show that 629 people in Ontario died from opioid-related causes from January to June of 2018. That marked an increase from the same time period in 2017, when 549 people died from opioid-related causes. Continue reading
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But Christine Elliott says it will likely take one to two years for them to become available. Continue reading
“We want to know what’s happening and then what steps need to be taken by the College (of Pharmacists) or by the ministry,” said Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott. Continue reading
The daughter and husband of a woman who died over the weekend from cancer is responding to the Doug Ford government’s plans to overhaul the health-care system. They say the system needs more than a transformation. Continue reading
Elliott says too much time is spent maintaining a fragmented system and far too many people believe it is the patient or family’s job to navigate the complicated landscape. Continue reading
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Christine Elliott’s comments came after the NDP released a second set of confidential government documents following the release last week of a draft version of the Progressive Conservative government’s upcoming health-care transformation legislation. Continue reading
Data from Public Health Ontario shows that 1,261 people died from an opioid overdose in Ontario in 2017, an increase from 2016, when 867 people died. Continue reading
Hamilton Health Sciences is getting more than $6.1 million while St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton will receive just over $2.5 million. Continue reading
The Ontario Health Coalition says the numbers come from the coroner’s office, which doesn’t assign blame in a finding of homicide, but defines it as one person causing the death of another. Continue reading
Roughly 1,600 submissions obtained by The Canadian Press through a freedom of information request show the vast majority called for the modernized 2015 curriculum to be reinstated. Continue reading