ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

• 2/22/2023

  Podcast: Loneliness is making us physically sick, but social prescribing can treat it

  The pandemic may have exacerbated social isolation but it did not invent it. In 2018, the United Kingdom created a ministerial portfolio for loneliness. Japan, where nearly 40% of the population report experiencing loneliness, began a similar position in 2021.
• 2/22/2023

  Nurse practitioners in B.C. can now assess crisis patients for involuntary admissions

  The New Democrat government says it changed the Mental Health Act last spring to help people get care during a mental health crisis, while respecting their legal rights.
• 2/22/2023

  Five provinces sign health deal but specific targets, timelines still to come

  Now that Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have formally agreed to the offer, they will begin negotiating more specific plans.
• 2/22/2023

  Manitoba government increases funding for seniors' health and social programs

  The province is adding $12.6 million a year to a program that helps people co-ordinate and manage their home-care services.
• 2/22/2023

  Code Grey: Workers, advocates paint a grim picture of healthcare in Niagara

  A panel of paramedics, nurses, emergency room doctors, addictions workers, and advocates from the Ontario Nurses Association and the Ontario Health Coalition spoke at the Feb. 9 forum.
• 2/22/2023

  It's time to make healthcare a federal responsibility

  Canadians have long viewed their ability to access healthcare without paying out of pocket as a quintessential Canadian quality. And having provinces run healthcare may have made sense in the days of paper and telegraphs, when integration was nigh on impossible. But today, when integration is paramount to running a healthcare system, it makes no sense.
• 2/22/2023

  Pharmpreneur of the week Jaiveer Singh: "Make sure you have the opportunity to pivot when things aren't working."

  As I've evolved as an entrepreneur, one thing I've realized is how important it is for the long term to make sure you take time for your continued development, both mentally and physically. On a certain level this is just self-preservation, but it’s also about being able to put your best self forward in every situation.
• 2/22/2023

  Ontario, federal government reach agreement in principle on healthcare

  Canada’s premiers agreed earlier this month to accept Ottawa’s offer of more than $46 billion to augment the Canada Health Transfer.
• 2/21/2023

  Ontario hospitals optimistic health reform bill will prevent drain of workers

  Ontario Hospital Association CEO Anthony Dale says the province listened when hospitals asked for physicians who work in the new system to have hospital privileges.
• 2/21/2023

  Family of N.S. woman who died in hospital after seven hour wait sues health authority

  A statement of claim filed Tuesday against the health authority and the ER physician on shift at the time of Holthoff’s death names her late husband and her three children as plaintiffs.