Tag: Health care
Letters to the Editor: January 18, 2023
Hidden costs
Surgery shift: London hospitals say they’re on same page as province
London’s hospitals are hoping the province’s push to do more publicly funded surgeries at community clinics will be an opportunity to bolster the work they’re already doing to streamline patient flow. The province on Monday announced a three-stage plan to increase access to publicly-funded surgical and diagnostic procedures by tapping into more community-based clinics — […]
Ontario to permanently fund more surgeries at private clinics
Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Syliva Jones announced the three-step plan on Monday that will allow public health services such as surgeries and MRI and CT scans to be delivered by for-profit facilities.
Ontario to increase surgeries performed in private facilities: Sources
Ontario will perform thousands more surgeries in private facilities in an effort to tackle the growing backlog, senior government sources said Friday. The sources – who were not authorized to speak ahead of an announcement set for next week – said the province will expand existing independent health facilities’ capacities in its first phase of […]
Ontario’s new pharmacist prescriptions already proving popular here
London pharmacies are already seeing patients, days into a new provincial program that allows Ontario pharmacists to offer prescriptions for more than a dozen common ailments.
Letters to the Editor: December 14, 2022
Not so simple
Letters to the Editor: November 15, 2022
Worthy discussion
MDs face probe as Londoner alleges her anesthetic protest was ignored
A London woman’s allegations she was given an anesthetic despite protesting that the drug is harmful to her has sparked a probe into at least three London doctors.
Letters to the Editor: September 17, 2022
Air show entertains a few, hurts all
London MPP to Ford Tories: Fix ‘frightening’ area ambulance woes
A London-area health-care flashpoint hit the floor of the provincial legislature, with a local opposition MPP warning one in three paramedics is ready to leave the profession.