Executives in healthcare saw the largest increases in executive pay among all industries in the United States in 2011, according to a Hay Group CEO compensation survey released Monday and published in the Wall Street Journal.
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).
Companies supplying products and services to Canadian hospitals have been experiencing a tight squeeze on prices over the past few years, and they should not expect to feel any relief in the foreseable future.
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.
