Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

In addition to her sizable salary, Alberta's chief medical officer of health took home more than $227K in 'cash benefits' during a year when the province's nurses were threatening job action.

The discipline panel was 'shocked by the registrant’s feeling that the actions for which he has been convicted criminally are somehow personal and do not affect his practice,' wrote the Ontario College of Pharmacists.

Emergency departments across Ontario have been forced to close for hours or days at a time this summer due to staffing shortages.

Nurses have called for wage restraint legislation known as Bill 124 to be repealed, but Jones says, "that is a conversation for another day.''

Pharmacists' union accuses large companies of unnecessary temporary closures for commercial reasons, not staffing shortages.

In a National Drug Schedules update, NAPRA has released its final recommendations for topical diclofenac diethylamine. 

Ombudsperson Jay Chalke says that is up from 28% when he made his recommendations in 2019, but still represents a significant gap in compliance by mental health facilities.

A BC court decision may have ruled against Dr. Brian Day and others, but as Dr. Charles Shaver argues, this doesn’t change the fact our healthcare system still needs a major overhaul.