Health Policy News

The CEO of Maple says he’s ‘extremely disappointed’ with the new recommendations.

Premier Tim Houston announced Tuesday that a new Halifax-based clinic will assess the skills of international medical graduates while the foreign recruits provide primary care to about 2,500 patients.

British Columbians are set to head to the polls on Oct. 19.

The province is offering bursaries of up to $200,000 for new family doctors to practice in rural and remote communities.

Hundreds of Saskatchewan nurses stood at the steps of the legislature on the third day of the election campaign demanding the next government follow through and fix staffing problems in healthcare.

David Harrigan, the United Nurses of Alberta director of labour relations, said informal mediation meetings last month were productive but said the gap between the two sides seems too big to bridge.

The province says it's well on its way of hitting its target of 1,000 net new healthcare workers.

Under the law, patients whose natural deaths are not reasonably foreseeable but whose condition leads to intolerable suffering can apply for a track-two assisted death.