Activity-based funding could help improve access and reduce wait times in Canada, as it has already done in several countries, according to The Montreal Economic Institute’s new Economic Note (Activity-Based Hospital Funding: We've Waited Long Enough).
Under a proposed restructuring of the Niagara Health System by a provincially appointed supervisor, four hospitals in southern Ontario would be shut and replaced with a new acute-care centre in addition to a hospital being built in St. Catharines.
The federal government is making clinical research an even bigger priority by doubling its investment in this area in a renewed partnership with Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (Rx&D).
Nurses outside the Halifax region are ready to walk off the job if they don't get wage parity with their colleagues at Capital Health, their union leader says.
