Rosalie Wyonch – Myth Busting: Drug Spending, Prices And Pharmacare
To: Canadians concerned about healthcare From: Rosalie Wyonch Date: December 5, 2019 Re: Myth Busting: Drug Spending, Prices and Pharmacare Prescription drug prices and increased drug spending are hot topics these days. With new regulations to lower the price of drugs due to come into force in 2020 and a pharmacare debate unfolding, there’s much to discuss. But […] Ian Irvine – The Vilification Of Vaping
From: Ian Irvine To: Canadians concerned about vaping Date: December 4, 2019 Re: The Vilification of Vaping The emergence of vaping and e-cigarettes worldwide poses a twin challenge to health policy making. Most vaping involves the inhalation of nicotine – some involves cannabis or simply flavoured e-juices. Since nicotine is an addictive substance, e-cigarettes are simultaneously a potential entry […] Wyonch, Blomqvist, Falk – Ministerial Mandate Letter: Minister Of Health
As Canada forms its next government, the Prime Minister’s Office will be preparing ministerial mandate letters. In this special Intelligence Memo series, policy experts highlight key challenges and priorities in each minister’s portfolio. From: Rosalie Wyonch, Åke Blomqvist and Will Falk To: Incoming Minister of Health Date: November 14, 2019 The federal government must work […] Sylvain Charlebois – Ministerial Mandate Letter: Minister Of Agriculture And Food
As Canada forms its next government, the Prime Minister’s Office will be preparing ministerial mandate letters. In this special Intelligence Memo series, policy experts highlight key challenges and priorities in each minister’s portfolio. From: Sylvain Charlebois To: The incoming Minister of Agriculture and Food Date: November 13, 2019 As you embark on your term as […] Blomqvist, Wyonch – Hospital Beds and Long-Term Care Wait Lists
From: Åke Blomqvist and Rosalie Wyonch To: Christine Elliott, Ontario Minister of Health, Merrilee Fullerton, Ontario Minister of Long-Term Care Date: November 12, 2019 Subject: Hospital Beds and Long-Term Care Wait Lists Waiting lists for long-term care beds are costly for patients and their families, and for the acute-care hospital system, which sees many of its beds […] Sinclair, Walker, Simpson, Drummond – Getting To A People-centred Health System
From: Duncan G. Sinclair, David Walker, Chris Simpson and Don Drummond To: Canada’s health ministers Date: November 6, 2019 Re: Getting to a People-Centred Health System Notwithstanding its iconic standing as one of Canada’s defining characteristics, medicare, our publicly funded health insurance program, is widely recognized to be in need of fundamental change. It was designed primarily to […] Feds Have Role To Play In Modernizing Canada’s Health-care Systems – Hill Times Op-ed
Health care is a provincial responsibility. A national role in health care would have been incomprehensible to our founders, as health care was delivered locally in 1867 by caregivers who physically visited their patients. This delivery method has changed dramatically in recent times, creating a legitimate national role for the federal government to push forward the modernization of health care in Canada, and globally.
The modernization of clinical practice has many dimensions: digital health, national licensure, virtual care, and best practice and quality indicators are among them. Fundamentally, the rise of information technology makes it possible for clinicians to standardize and improve their practice and, in some instances,…
Donald Drummond – Ministerial Mandate Letter: Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations
As Canada forms its next government, the Prime Minister’s Office will be preparing ministerial mandate letters. In this special Intelligence Memo series, policy experts highlight key challenges and priorities in each minister’s portfolio. From: Donald Drummond To: The incoming Ministers of Crown‑Indigenous Relations and Indigenous Services Date: October 25, 2019 As you embark as Ministers […] Blomqvist, Wyonch – Ontario Health Teams: Primary Care Should Be Key
From: Åke Blomqvist and Rosalie Wyonch To: Christine Elliott, Ontario Minister of Health Date: September 27, 2019 Subject: Ontario Health Teams: Primary Care Should Be Key The Ontario government is reorganizing healthcare, from the Health Ministry to the doctor’s office. To meet the goals of reducing wait times, constraining costs, and ensuring patients have access to high-quality healthcare, the government […] Primary care should be key to Ontario Health Team planning – Toronto Star Op-Ed
The Ontario government is reorganizing health care, from the Health Ministry to the doctor’s office. To meet the goals of reducing wait times, constraining costs and ensuring patients have access to high-quality health care, the government should address fundamental challenges in primary care and how family doctors are paid.
Ending hallway medicine was one of the signature campaign promises of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives when they were elected. To this end, the government proposed a health care system reorganization, featuring a network of Ontario Health Teams with responsibility for supplying “integrated” health care to all residents.
Patients and health professionals are waiting to hear what the government will…
Health Teams and Primary Care Reform in Ontario: Staying the Course
The Ontario government should expand and strengthen compensation reform for primary care doctors as it creates new Ontario Health Teams to better coordinate healthcare services, argues a new C.D. Howe Institute report. Such compensation reform is compatible with improving appropriateness of care and could be a more flexible way to reduce medically unnecessary treatments than […] Rosalie Wyonch – Drug Price Regulations and the Problem with External Referencing
From: Rosalie Wyonch To: Canadian drug regulators Date: September 4, 2019 Subject: Drug Price Regulations and the Problem with External Referencing Last month, the federal government released revised regulations for determining the maximum price of patented medicines in Canada. The new rules bring significant change to the way the Patented Medicine Pricing Review Board assesses whether or not […]