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Doctor-bashing’s not the cure for health-care costs
Here in Ontario, the government has gone to war against the doctors again. This happens every time we are in the hole and the government has to rein in health care costs. The Health Minister goes on the radio to explain, more in sorrow than in anger, that the doctors’ demands are completely selfish and unreasonable...Read more...
Registered nurses lobby for expansion of duties
As a registered nurse in an Ottawa-based hospital, Anne-Marie Lemieux has a long list of daily to-dos: she assists patients in the restroom and the shower and helps them eat their meals; she administers medicine; inserts and removes catheters; changes dressings; starts IVs; preps patients for diagnostic tests and surgeries; supports families; updates charts; and works the admissions and discharge desk...Read More...
Four key spending decisions Health
THE government will continue to pump more funds into health care -- even as it freezes or cuts spending to 10 departments and agencies...read more...
Physician assistant program produces first grads
Six recent graduates of Ontario’s two physician assistant (PA) programs, including four members of the University of Toronto program’s first graduating class, have accepted positions in Northern Ontario...Read More...
Un adjoint au médecin, c’est l’extension du bras du médecin.
Louis-François Robichaud, Quebec Chapter President was featured in the March 2012 issue of the Quebec Medical Association’s Info Bulletin. Louis was a panelist representing CAPA at the 'Colloque médicale étudiant du Québec' last January. Please see page 3 of the document found here
Confused over clinics
Redford's family care might be good, if anyone could figure it out
The concept of collaborative care in the field of health is sound and sensible. As described by the Canadian College of Family Physicians, it involves "a team or network of caregivers, including nurses, physician assistants and other health professionals
Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Confused+over+clinics/6419959/story.html#ixzz1sEZ5xFDe
Letter to the editor:
In response to article, Lack of MDs worsening ER crowding, The Gazette, March 21, 2012...Read More...
Letter to the Editor:
Response to article titled: Deputy premier off to England to view mobile medical service, posted March 20, 2012, the Herald News...Read more...
Cure for MD shortages
With the recent announcement that Balcarres is to lose its only physician, perhaps it is time to reconsider utilizing physician assistants in this province to alleviate physician shortages in rural Saskatchewan.
Strong medicine prescribed
Economist Don Drummond’s austerity recommendations for health care might be strong medicine, but most of it is good medicine that’s been long overdue, say local health care watchers and providers...Read more...
Staying ‘home’ to provide a healthy alternative
A program designed to help improve patient-care in the province has had some healthy results when it comes to graduates deciding to stay in Manitoba...Read more...
Systemic health reform and physician wage freeze urged for Ontario
The province of Ontario should undertake a systemic shift in the provision of health services toward patient-centred, continuum-coordinated, preventive, community-based care, while immediately imposing a wage freeze for physicians, according to the Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services...Read more...
Cure for MD shortages
With the recent announcement that Balcarres is to lose its only physician, perhaps it is time to reconsider utilizing physician assistants in this province to alleviate physician shortages in rural Saskatchewan...Read more...
Dans 27 pays de l'OCDE - Santé: la première ligne fait la différence
Les listes d'attente interminables nous le rappellent: le Canada investit beaucoup dans son système de santé...Read more...
Ontario must be scared into austerity to avoid crisis like Greece: report
TORONTO - Bigger class sizes, higher utility bills, and fewer hospitals are among the bitter pills deficit-ridden Ontario must swallow to avoid the same fate as debt-plagued Greece, economist Don Drummond warned Wednesday...Read more...
Recommendation highlights of The Drummond Report
In a "gloomy" outlook, an ex-bank economist hired to help whip Ontario's books into shape unloads 362 cost-cutting proposals -- the kind of shock treatment Ontarians have never seen...Read more...
What's a Physician Assistant?
Britton Sprules wanted to care for people, so she became a Physician Assistant. Here's her conversation about the emerging profession with Voyage North host Cathy Alex... More...
First-ever Training Program in Canada Successful at Retaining Physician Assistants
The vast majority of students graduating from the first-in-Canada physician-assistant masters training program have chosen to stay in Manitoba to use their valuable medical skills to care for patients in hospitals, clinics and other health-care settings across the province, Health Minister Theresa Oswald and Advanced Education and Literacy Minister Erin Selby announced today...Read more...
Aspiring physician assistants invited to session
An information session for those interested in becoming physician assistants is being held in Sudbury Feb. 9...Read more...
CAPA issued a news release in response to the Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care’s Action Plan on Health Care in Ontario.
The Canadian Association of Physician Assistants (CAPA) is supportive of the Minister of Health’s Action Plan for Ontario and is proposing that Physician Assistants (PAs) working collaboratively with other health care professionals can help to contribute to the objectives of the plan resulting in improved patient care for Ontarians... Read more....