Solutions exist, but only if leaders are willing to listen to health-care professionals
Experts have offered a range of explanations for the current crises with actionable solutions, and if we listened to them, we could have been on our front foot, proactively planning and properly resourcing.
Needed: less science hype!
Now, more than ever, we need trustworthy science that is grounded in rigorous methods, and science communication that is balanced and accurate.
Working together for a healthy workforce
While the federal government can provide leadership and support, collaboration with provincial and territorial governments is crucial.
Cancer will strike almost half of all Canadians in their lifetime
A challenge of this magnitude requires a national response, and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer is a unique model of collaboration that is working to make a meaningful difference in cancer outcomes across the country.
How to achieve accountability in long-term care
It is impossible for provincial/territorial residents to hold their governments accountable for their responsibilities in LTC if the data available are biased, and the most important kinds of data are completely absent.
It’s time health-care workers learned how to work in teams
We need to reorganize the work of health-care workers to better use their expertise, reduce duplication, and enhance the co-ordination of care experienced outside of hospitals.
Harness the current momentum to shift the health workforce from a position of crisis to one of strength
The government can reframe the issue by focusing on the demand side of work instead of on the domestic supply of labour.
Iiyika’kimaat in Indigenous health: a call for change and empowerment
A physician who witnesses the realities of an often-inadequate health system for Indigenous communities urges the federal government to implement Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action 18-24.
The federal government is failing Canadian health research
Canada risks losing out by inadequately investing in health researchers working to unlock new discoveries.
National strategy needed to address fragmented innovation ecosystem, say researchers
‘There is a sense that we are not certain as to how we are going to invest, grow, and make our innovation ecosystem prosperous for the next generation,’ says the University of Saskatchewan’s vice-president of research.
