Reform

The Saskatchewan Medical Association and the college that regulates doctors say the province should strengthen existing treatment programs before implementing involuntary care.

How exactly will nurse practitioners bill Ontario for their services? Health Minister Sylvia Jones just ruled out one possibility.

The newly effective Health Professions and Occupations Act makes major changes to how discipline cases are handled for pharmacists in B.C.

Under the new rules, the colleges will investigate complaints but the provincially appointed director of discipline will establish a panel to decide how someone will be disciplined.

Michael Parsa, the minister of children, community and social services, says the ‘vast majority’ of the new funding will go toward core services.

New health act consolidates government control sparking concerns from physicians over due process and autonomy.

An international firm that the New Brunswick government recently signed a contract with to replace the popular virtual healthcare platform eVisitNB suffered a credit rating downgrade late last year because of financial problems.

Ottawa has clarified that nurse practitioner services equivalent to what physicians provide are covered by the Canada Health Act’s requirement that medically necessary services are publicly funded, and gave provinces until April 1 to do so.

The bill aims to overhaul Bill P-38, or the Act respecting the protection of persons whose mental state presents a danger to themselves or to others, adopted in 1998.

Band-Aid solutions won't fix our healthcare system and will only lead to a further degradation of quality, Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes argues.