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• Surrey hospital won’t have emergency team for parts of May long weekend, doctor claims

  A Code Blue team handles patients who require resuscitation or immediate attention, most often as a result of cardiac or respiratory arrest.

  Health

  May 1
  
• Doctors share their 2023 wishlist after a year of ‘crisis’ in Canada’s ERs

  Physicians on the front lines of Canada’s ailing health system are taking stock after a challenging year. Here are some of their wishes for change in 2023.

  Canada

  Dec 29, 2022
  
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• Lack of urgency on mental health transfer contributing to ER crisis, advocates say

  A lack of urgency to improve and expand access to mental health and addictions care across the country is contributing to the 'crisis' in Canada’s emergency rooms, advocates say.

  Health

  Nov 26, 2022
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• Canada’s ER crisis: Doctors urge governments to stop finger-pointing and find solutions

  Emergency room doctors say it’s time federal and provincial governments stop pointing fingers over the “crisis” in health care and instead come up with solutions.

  Health

  Oct 30, 2022
• Canada’s premiers turn up the heat in new push for more health funding

  Canada’s premiers have launched a new ad campaign aimed at ratcheting up public pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to negotiate more federal health funding to the provinces.

  Health

  Oct 26, 2022
• Liberals face mounting calls to fulfil $4.5B mental health transfer election pledge

  The federal Liberals are facing calls to fulfil an election pledge to create a $4.5 billion mental health transfer - a stalled promise that is contributing to Canada’s ER crisis.

  Health

  Oct 21, 2022
• Children’s hospitals ‘gravely worried’ about upcoming flu season amid ER crisis

  As flu season approaches, officials at children’s hospitals across the country say they are “gravely worried” about an influx of children with flu, COVID-19 or other viruses.

  Health

  Oct 18, 2022
• Long COVID infections are leading to higher rates of health system use: study 

  Patients who develop long COVID in Canada are accessing health care more frequently in the months after infection, according to a new study. 

  Canada

  Oct 16, 2022
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• ‘Real disconnect’: Provinces and feds point fingers as Canada’s ER crisis continues

  There is mixed messaging from politicians as the ER crisis continues across Canada, one health expert says.

  Health

  Sep 27, 2022
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• ‘I know that it saved my life’: Can virtual health care ease Canada’s ER crisis?

  As Canada’s health system struggles with staffing shortages and emergency room closures across the country, virtual care is being eyed as a solution to fill gaps in care.

  Health

  Sep 20, 2022