Private-public collaboration is key to unlocking healthcare for all
Recently, the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimated that if a national pharmacare program had been implemented in 2016, the cost to taxpayers would have topped $7.3-billion per year.
Canada needs a national health human resource strategy
To reduce wait times, Canadian governments need to addresses each step of the training and practice pipeline.
Carry on the work of putting equity in place in Canada’s MAID legislation
A recent poll indicates that a majority of Canada continue to support the Supreme Court decision that struck down the federal prohibition on medical assistance in dying in 2015.
NDP, Liberal MPs say Canada can learn lessons from Portugal’s ‘integrated, multifaceted, and patient-centred’ drug model
NDP MP Gord Johns says in his meetings with experts and stakeholders in Portugal he heard ‘no appetite’ for mandating treatment or for a return to criminalizing drug use.
Canada’s next big bet needs to be on medical isotopes
Cancer is still the leading cause of death in Canada. Industry is ready to deliver, and with government involvement, we can work together to bring hope to patients who face a bleak outcome.
Public-private partnerships can improve global health care
The partnership between the WHO and Firstline—an intergovernmental agency and a private firm—is a blueprint for leveraging global expertise and technology to tackle grand-scale health challenges.
Tuberculosis is a global emergency, and rich nations should treat it as such
The science to develop a new vaccine is available. A lack of funding is all that hinders progress on health equity.
Health-care stakeholders express tentative optimism after Council of Federation meeting, but won’t be ‘satisfied’ until results are delivered
The premiers did not publicly focus on applying co-ordinated pressure on Ottawa regarding health care at this gathering, because ‘the ball is in their court’ right now, said Charles Breton of IRPP.
Alcohol lobbyists are not scientists
At the June 28 WHO Forum on Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours, WHO-Europe presented Canada’s Guidance on Alcohol and Health as a good example of how to communicate the link between alcohol and health.
NDP, Liberal MPs getting first-hand look at Portugal’s drug decriminalization efforts
New Democrat MP Gord Johns says he aims to bring back enough expert opinion to convince the Liberals to offer more than a piecemeal approach to the opioids crisis.
