“ 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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Insights
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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Off the Cuff
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
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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
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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
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