The new Canada Disability Benefit has many downsides including that it is the time-consuming for physicians to do Disability Tax Credit form that is the gateway, argues Dr. Gary Bloch.
There are dozens of health occupations that will benefit from the funding, including audiologists, dietitians, lab technologists and radiation therapists.
Some staff are compounding sterile preparations for patients without passing gloved fingertip sampling and media fill testing in a competency assessment program, the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia says.