Health Policy News

The budget allocates over $1.1 billion in new funding for hospitals—more than a billion dollars less than what the Ontario Hospital Association has said the province’s overburdened hospital sector needs.

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.

Public Health Agency of Canada cuts funding to Blood Safety Contribution Program as of March 31, but some elements will continue until next year while renewal project takes place.

‘These technologies have been shown to limit desire for interaction with peers, pushed some young people into sexual conversations and have even recommended suicide to vulnerable youth,’ states the resolution.

Key to Newfoundland’s new unified health information system.

The controversy has been the subject of inquiries by a government-appointed judge, the auditor general and the RCMP.

Provinces won’t start incurring penalties for non-compliance until April 2027. Critics and nurse practitioners say Ontario should not wait.

Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party government introduced a bill that, if passed, would limit medical assistance in dying, better known as MAID, to those likely to die of natural causes within a year.