Search results for “node/Hospital Wait Times”

  • Tax cuts would come back to bite BC

    In the BC election, significant tax cuts were put on the table by both the BC Conservatives and BC NDP in their policy platforms. While they were framed as a way of easing pressures on the cost of living, tax cuts would do little to address the structural problems underlying…

  • Activity Based Funding won’t solve waitlists and overcrowding in hospitals, creates barriers to needed reforms: Study

    READ THe REPORT summary HERE. VANCOUVER–As Canada’s premiers meet in Victoria to discuss different approaches to health system reform, a new study raises serious concerns about “Activity Based Funding” (ABF), a new funding model introduced in BC that pays hospitals based on the number of surgeries they perform. Research evidence…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Reducing Surgical Wait Times

    The Case for Public Innovation and Provincial Leadership Download 1.16 MB56 pages BC’s surgical wait times are among the longest in the country. The provincial government recently released a policy paper that discusses the need for more provincial leadership to reduce wait times. But the report also recommends extending the length of…

  • Landmark health care case spotlights problems of a profit-centred system

    In April, the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear a case involving the constitutionality of legal limits on private finance in health care. A 14-year legal saga has ended, but many provinces seem to be ignoring evidence in this case indicating that a profit-centred system does not serve the…

  • The sound of silence

    Weeks stretch to months, months to years as BC government clamps down on information  When debate on the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act began last fall Stephanie Cadieux, then Liberal MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale, was among many to note how British Columbians are waiting longer and longer…

  • Ignoring proven wait list solutions undermines health care sustainability

    Imagine looking in a mirror and not seeing the nose on your face. There it is, right in front of your eyes but somehow you just don’t see it. Sound impossible? Clearly, for some people it’s not because when it comes to health care, our provincial government is expert at…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Waiting for the Brad Wall Inquiry Report

    In October 2019 the provincial government announced that former Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall would take over as commissioner of an inquiry into Manitoba Hydro’s Bipole III transmission and converter station project, and Keeyask Generating Station. The cost of the inquiry was reported at $2.5 million. Wall took over from former…

  • Waiting to count

    We know the value of disaggregated data. So why are 2SLGBTQQIA+ experiences still missing from government data collection?

    We know the value of disaggregated data. So why are 2SLGBTQQIA+ experiences still missing from government data collection?

  • Innovative surgical projects show how waitlists can be solved: Submission to BC ‘conversation on health’

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) Surgical waitlists can be dramatically cut if the BC government takes leadership by scaling up innovative projects already underway in the public system, a new study says. Why Wait? Public Solutions to Cure Surgical Waitlists, released today by the CCPA and the…

  • The Real Crisis in Medicare

    Canada needs (and can afford) complete national health care Contrary to the alarm raised by Canada’s premiers, the Harper government’s abdication from its leadership role in health care does not constitute a crisis. Canada’s health care system has been under provincial jurisdiction since the Constitution Act, 1867, and the federal…

  • Labour Matters

    Fast Facts: Canada’s Long-Term Care Workers on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    The COVID-19 pandemic has in less than four months spread throughout the globe and altered both the daily lives of citizens and the economy of many countries, including Canada. Media reports through all platforms cover COVID-19 extensively, in fact there is not much else in the news these days.  While…

  • Public solutions to health care wait lists

    Waits for care are the biggest political issue facing Canadian health care—a priority reflected in the accord reached by the federal and provincial health ministers a few days ago. They agreed to set limits on wait times for major surgeries and treatments, but conceded that these limits would be targets…