Health Care System

• How to advocate for yourself and navigate a strained health-care system

  Here’s how you can advocate for yourself and receive the best treatment possible in Canada’s strained health-care system.

  Canada

  Jan 25
  
• Saskatchewan students will have more opportunities to access health science programs

  Sask. Minister Gordon Wyant announces $5 million investment to reserve 149 seats in nine health-care training programs offered outside the province.

  Canada

  Dec 5, 2023
  
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• Health-care spending returns to smaller ‘pre-COVID growth rates’: CIHI report

  A new CIHI report predicts that the country will spend 2.8 per cent more on health care in 2023 than last year, but the total is still an overall downwards trend.

  Health

  Nov 2, 2023
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• Diabetic man waits hours for food at Halifax hospital, wife speaks out

  A Halifax-area woman is frustrated after her diabetic husband missed a meal during a stay at the Victoria General Hospital, and had another meal arrive several hours late.

  Health

  Sep 11, 2023
• Changes to Manitoba’s health-care system as province sets sights on more recruitment

  In a bid to recruit more, Manitoba has enlisted the help of a firm to recruit 150 physicians to work across the province, from Winnipeg to rural communities.

  Canada

  Jul 24, 2023
• Alberta’s tech minister to ‘explore feasibility’ of health spending accounts

  “This is a really important task that's going to be a complicated one,” Glubish told Global News.

  Politics

  Jul 12, 2023
• Danielle Smith says Ottawa could help health care with improved international recruiting

  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says improving health care is not just a matter of money and transfers from Ottawa to the provinces.

  Health

  Jul 11, 2023
• Next steps on new $46B health care deal tops agenda in annual gathering

  As the premiers sit down in Winnipeg for the three-day meeting this week, the attention will be most on how to use the new money Ottawa has promised in healthcare.

  Canada

  Jul 9, 2023
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• Nova Scotia Tories table second deficit budget aimed at fixing health care

  Repairing Nova Scotia's faltering health-care system is the centrepiece of the provincial government's $14.4 billion budget tabled today.

  Canada

  Mar 23, 2023
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• A dozen N.S. pharmacies to provide more medical services as part of pilot program 

  Nova Scotia is launching a pilot project that will allow pharmacists to see patients with common illnesses, as well as prescribe and manage medications for more ailments.

  Health

  Jan 31, 2023