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Nova Scotia has announced extra resources to relieve the pressure on strained emergency departments, following the recent deaths of two women who waited hours for care.
At a news conference Wednesday morning, health officials outlined extra measures to improve ambulance response times, address long wait times and overcrowding in Nova Scotia’s ERs, and offer people more places to receive care.
“The needs of the system have expanded and changed, but the system has not,” said Health Minister Michelle Thompson during the news conference.
“Our government was elected to change that… after so many years of neglect. The past is not
More than 144,000 US veterans have enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs health care since last August, an increase of 21,000 patients over the year before that may be related to landmark legislation that broadened health care and benefits for up to 1 million of the nation’s veterans.
VA Under Secretary for Health Dr. Shereef Elnahal said Thursday that the department has had an uptick in applications for VA health care and is determining whether the new patients are the result of the Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics, or PACT, Act. That law, signed last year, bolstered
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A bed is moved in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at St. Paul’s hospital in downtown Vancouver, on April 21, 2020.JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press
One of the provinces inspired Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s decision to expand the use of private clinics to tackle surgical backlogs is bolstering its public health care system at the expense of private operators accused of underusing operating rooms.
The British Columbia government is moving in a different direction from Ontario, saying it is focusing on addressing its waiting list through the public health care system as it – along with other provinces – grapples
Premier Tim Houston says the deaths of two women who waited hours for help in rural emergency rooms weighed heavily on him as the person responsible for health care in Nova Scotia.
This week, his government announced a number of changes to the health-care system, which have met with mixed reactions from providers.
“The tragedies that were in the news, they’re the depths of sadness,” Houston told CBC Radio’s Mainstreet on Thursday. “I mean, I feel that very personally”
Houston spoke with host Jeff Douglas about the progress his government has made on his campaign promise to fix health care.
After nearly three years of a devastating global pandemic, our health-care system is hanging on by a thread. The consequences of 30 months of policymakers ignoring the calls of health-care workers across the country to protect our system are starkly in front of us.
Only now, do we see wait
Do you trust the government with your private health-care information? Do you trust the government to mandate your health care?
A commentary from a medical doctor with a practice in Saanich.
So, Health Minister Adrian Dix, I have been waiting now for almost a year for that cup of coffee. (See “How to encourage more family doctors,” Feb. 7, 2022.)
We have never once met to discuss the health-care crisis in this province, or solutions to the family doctor shortage, despite overwhelming public pressure as evidenced by the Herculean advocacy efforts of BC Healthcare Matters.
You gave me a glimmer
Sport is captivating. Engaging in it elicits strong emotions for many people, like passion, excitement, and love. Sport is so central to many people’s lives that it impacts the choices participants and spectators make about how they live. For example, practice and game schedules often determine how one’s days, weeks, and even vacations are planned. In addition, the great value is placed on the role of sport in our lives. Sport is argued to be a place where people can learn and practice socially valued behaviors such as teamwork, perseverance and hard work; all characteristics are also used to describe
The global pandemic has wreaked havoc on academics, classrooms, and physical education. There is no doubt physical education and the physical development of children during their developmental years were greatly affected by the pandemic. Physical education is a field in which physical distancing, wearing masks, and avoiding close contact is extremely difficult. The importance of physical education for a child’s social, emotional, and physical well-being has been shown for decades (Bailey, 2006). As the country slowly comes out of the pandemic restrictions, interest in how physical education classes were affected during a pandemic should be studied.
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