Politics of Health Care
Ontario Citizens Council: a failed experiment or a success in the making?
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Last week, the Ontario Medical Association and the Ontario government announced they had reached a tentative agreement that they hope will end their current dispute. The tentative agreement, which will run... Read MoreExpert advice for Ontario Ombudsman on his bid for jurisdiction over hospitals and long term care facilities
Ontario Ombudsman André Marin’s bid for jurisdiction to investigate complaints about patients’ experiences at the province’s hospitals and long-term care facilities has support from a wide range of patient advocacy... Read MorePatient-oriented research in Canada: what progress has been made?
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Although there is lots of talk about making measures of health system performance available to the public, the reality often falls short of the aspirations. Not only are these measures often... Read MorePlanning for disaster: the state of emergency preparedness in Ontario
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Article Archive
- April, 2013
- November, 2012
- August, 2012
- Patient-oriented research in Canada: what progress has been made? | Aug 21, 2012
- How ‘public’ are hospital performance ratings? | Aug 2, 2012
- July, 2012
- June, 2012
- Perspective on payment negotiation for Ontario’s doctors | Jun 7, 2012
- May, 2012
- Approaches to Improving access to specialists in rural regions: Ontario & Germany | May 24, 2012
- Ontario’s plan for personal support workers | May 10, 2012
- Money matters: does ‘pay-for-performance’ improve quality? | May 3, 2012
- April, 2012
- Does more care mean better care? | Apr 26, 2012
- Medication shortages: how Ontario came to rely on one manufacturer | Apr 19, 2012
- Head first: birth centres in Ontario | Apr 12, 2012
- Should clinical practice guidelines consider value for money? | Apr 5, 2012
- March, 2012
- February, 2012
- Ontario hospital funding: confusion for 2012/2013? | Feb 23, 2012
- Controversies about Community Care Access Centres and home care | Feb 16, 2012
- How does Canadian health care compare? | Feb 9, 2012
- Managing conflicts of interest in research | Feb 2, 2012
- January, 2012
- December, 2011
- Weighing the harms and benefits of mammography | Dec 21, 2011
- Did mammography save her life? | Dec 15, 2011
- Interpreting randomized trial evidence around mammography | Dec 8, 2011
- Presenting the benefits of mammography | Dec 1, 2011
- November, 2011
- What is driving health care costs? | Nov 24, 2011
- The mammography controversy | Nov 17, 2011
- Should health care workers be required to get the flu vaccine? | Nov 10, 2011
- Are bedbugs a health problem? | Nov 3, 2011
- October, 2011
- Charging patients for services: much confusion, little consensus | Oct 27, 2011
- The future of the federal health transfer | Oct 20, 2011
- Hospital accreditation and quality improvement | Oct 13, 2011
- The influence of politics & the public on research funding in Canada | Oct 3, 2011
- September, 2011
- Accessing primary care in Ontario | Sep 28, 2011
- House calls and Ontario’s election | Sep 22, 2011
- Why does the government appoint hospital supervisors? | Sep 15, 2011
- What’s next for tobacco control in Ontario? | Sep 8, 2011
- August, 2011
- Need & access to bariatric surgery in Ontario | Aug 17, 2011
- Why don’t more doctors do house calls? | Aug 10, 2011
- Improving access to trauma care in Ontario | Aug 3, 2011
- July, 2011
- Accessing trauma care in Ontario | Jul 27, 2011
- Public and private payment for health care in Canada | Jul 20, 2011
- The risks of emergency department overcrowding | Jul 13, 2011
- National pharmacare: who are the winners and losers? | Jul 6, 2011
- June, 2011
- LHINs and the governance of Ontario’s health care system | Jun 29, 2011
- Why isn’t there a system of integrated maternity care in Ontario? | Jun 22, 2011
- Complementary & alternative medicine in practice and policy | Jun 8, 2011
- May, 2011
- Doctors & drug reps: prescription for trouble? | May 18, 2011
- Will the aging population bankrupt our health care system? | May 11, 2011
- April, 2011
- Federal health spending without accountability | Apr 25, 2011
- What is the federal government’s role in health care? | Apr 20, 2011
- Debate on paying doctors | Apr 13, 2011
- How should hospital doctors be paid? | Apr 6, 2011
- March, 2011
- Should patients have better access to their medical records? | Mar 30, 2011
- Direct-to-consumer genetic testing comes to Canada | Mar 23, 2011
- Waiting for long-term care in Ontario | Mar 16, 2011
- Why are so many Canadians going abroad to study medicine? | Mar 9, 2011
- Reducing ‘unnecessary’ blood glucose test strip use | Mar 2, 2011
- February, 2011
- Why has Ontario introduced a new narcotics strategy? | Feb 22, 2011
- What is Healthy Debate? | Feb 16, 2011
- January, 2011
- Citizens participate in hospital restructuring processes | Jan 27, 2011
- Focus on quality for Ontario’s pathologists | Jan 19, 2011
- Do lessons from the fight against smoking apply to reducing obesity? | Jan 19, 2011
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