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To improve value in healthcare systems, policy makers seek to limit funding for so-called low value procedures that provide little or no benefit and could pose the potential for harm.
David Wasserstein, Karen S. Palmer and Noah Ivers

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Aggressive Cuts Destabilizing and Irreparably Damaging Alberta’s Healthcare System

Lorian Hardcastle and Ubaka Ogbogu

The Alberta government’s plans to cut approximately 11,000 Alberta Health Services jobs prompted hundreds of healthcare workers across the province to take job action in October, 2020. These and other cuts, and the aggressive pace at which they are being implemented, risk destabilizing the entire healthcare system.

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Policy thought-leaders, Don Drummond and Duncan Sinclair, release long-term care report seeking to reshape the future for Canadian seniors

Best Practice for a virtual presentation; based on Longwoods experiences over the last 8 months.

LTC+: Acting on Pandemic Learning Together with CFHI and CPSI

Rapid tests for COVID-19 have been distributed across Canada. Here’s why some provinces aren’t using them

Canada’s at the back of the COVID-19 vaccine line. But it’s not because they aren’t made here
  - How the Liberals are bungling the vaccine endgame (MacLeans, August, 2020)

3 million Canadians could be vaccinated in early 2021, but feds warn of 'logistical challenges'

Partisan sniping won’t get vaccines into Canadians’ arms. Only planning will - André Picard

Unusable masks, catered meals, redone renos: B.C. health minister orders review of PHSA spending

Alberta Hospitalizations and case rates expected to increase before impact of restrictions felt, Health Minister says

One Quebec hospital has an alarming COVID-19 death toll

How do Ontario’s lockdown rules compare to those around the world? 3 graphics that explain that and who is ‘flattening the curve’ right now

An unprecedented 46 people die of COVID-19 in B.C. over the weekend, health officials announce

Don't want the COVID-19 vaccine? You could lose access to normal life, says U.K. minister 

 

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Longwoods Breakfast Series

The Longwoods Breakfast Series is a year of healthcare learning briefings. Each season we provide monthly educational sessions that provide invited leaders in healthcare the opportunity to share new ideas, policies and/or best practices with colleagues 

Speakers coming in 2021 include:

  • Sanjay Cherian, Vice President, Strategy and Digital Health, TELUS Health
  • Catherine Gaulton, President and CEO, HIROC
  • George Kassianos, National Immunization Lead, Royal College of General Practitioners, United Kingdom
  • Victoria Lee, President and CEO, Fraser Health Authority
  • Verna Yiu, President and CEO, Alberta Health Services

Sign up here to be notified of dates and registration.

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Dr. Brian O'Rourke

Past Breakfast Events

Transforming How We Manage Health Technologies in Support of Better Health
On November 6, 2018. Dr. Brian O'Rourke, President and CEO of CADTH. Canadians deserve excellent healthcare, and contemporary healthcare is heavily dependent on drugs, medical devices, diagnostic testing, and other clinical interventions

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Optimizing Human Resource Management in the Time of COVID-19 at York Region
Rina Lamba and Julia Roitenberg

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Healthcare Policy Vol. 16, No. 2, 2020

Co-locating Older Retirement Home Residents: Uncovering an Under-Researched Population via Postal Code
Hana Brath, Sanghun J. Kim, Susan E. Bronskill, Paula A. Rochon and Nathan M. Stall

This paper reports on the development of an algorithm to determine the probability (certain, likely or unlikely) of identifying a retirement home resident in Ontario using postal code information at the facility level. 

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  • Jason Garay to Ontario Life Sciences and Health Care Leader, Deloitte Canada, Toronto, ON
  • Vivek Goel to President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
  • France Desrosiers to Chief Executive Officer, Vitalité Health Network, Bathurst, NB
  • Shelia Malcolmson to Minister Mental Health and Addictions, Government of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
  • Stacey Litvinchuk to Sr. Provincial Director, Surgery Utilization, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, AB
  • Leo Glavine to retire at end of term, Minister of Health, Government of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
  • May Eleid to Interim Director Decision Support, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, ON
  • Scott Bratman to Dr. Mariano Antonio Elia Chair in Head and Neck Cancer Research, University Health Network, Toronto, ON
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