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The Strengthening Quality and Accountability for Patients Act, 2017, supports Ontario’s Patients First: Action Plan for Health Care and will ensure that patients continue to receive quality and accountable health care services. The 10 pieces of legislation included are: Health…

A private member’s bill with the goal of making end-of-life health care better for Canadians from coast to coast became law Tuesday. Bill C-277, also known as the “Framework on Palliative Care in Canada Act,” received Royal Assent on Tuesday.…

“The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition”. Almost 70 years after these words were adopted in the…

The majority of people treated in an Ontario emergency room after a suicide attempt are not seen by a psychiatrist within six months, according to a new study. Even patients who are admitted to hospital for a serious mental-health issue…

Two men, different provinces, the same life-changing surgery, yet one has to pay out of pocket and the other is covered by the public health-care system in what some call Canada’s medical “postal code lottery.” Peter Pawlik, a hearing-impaired Calgary…

A mothballed northwestern Toronto facility has been getting a multimillion dollar makeover after sitting mostly vacant for more than two years. On Sunday, the hospital is slated to reopen with a new name and a new mandate. The Reactivation Care Centre…

Today, Dr. Eric Hoskins, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care issued the following statement on the Auditor General’s reports. Full article at: Minister of Health and Long-Term Care

Long waits for a key cancer diagnosis procedure, underuse of radiation therapy and expensive trips to the United States for stem cell transplants are some of the health-care issues being highlighted by Ontario’s auditor general in her annual report. Part…

The amount of time most Canadians spend waiting in emergency departments to be admitted to hospital is on the rise, new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows. The emergency department (ED) length of stay for people…