"By all means, the provinces should fund additional surgical services to meet the needs of the population. But barring public hospitals from competing with private businesses to deliver additional services feels unfairly punitive to institutions that are otherwise shining examples of effective public infrastructure in Canada." #canhealth #cdnpoli
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/02/21/the-truth-and-the-costs-behind-public-payment-for-private-surgeries.html?rf

Will provinces accept Trudeau’s new health funding deal? Feds to ask ministers - National | Globalnews https://bit.ly/40JlQv9 #canhealth #Healthcare #CanadianHospitals #Medicare #HealthDeal #cdnpoli @cdnpoli

RT Tara Moriarty's #COVIDForecast

https://twitter.com/MoriartyLab/status/1617182209835945984

"The Jan 22-28 Canadian COVID Forecast and associated data are now live.

SEVERE: CAN, BC, MB, NL, NS, ON
VERY HIGH: AB, NB, North, PEI
HIGH: MB, QC, SK

All but PEI stable or decreasing

About 1 in 32 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Link: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index "

#COVIDIsAirborne
#COVIDIsNotOver
#MaskUp
#BreakTheChain
#N95sSaveLives
#BringBackMasks
#CANHealth
#ONHealth
#Canada
#COVID

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1617182209835945984.html

Summary of AVI Health & Community Services' SAFER program available here including links to other written materials, recordings of online presentations, etc. SAFER has been providing prescribed #SafeSupply for close to 2.5 years & is not only preventing death but improving quality of life.

https://www.catie.ca/programming-connection/victoria-safer-initiative

#CdnHealth #CdnPoli #CanHealth #CanPoli #YYJPoli #OverdoseCrisis #DrugPolicy #ToxicDrugPolicy #Decriminalize #Legalize #HarmReduction

This is a great offering from the National #SafeSupply Community of Practice and AVI Health & Community Services' SAFER Knowledge Translation & Exchange team. They will discuss early learnings from implementing prescribed #fentanyl as a safer supply option in #YYJ.

All NSS-CoP webinars are recorded & posted if you cannot attend live on Tues Jan 24 @ 1300 EST.

#HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #CanPoli #CanHealth
@NurseRanger

https://www.nss-aps.ca/event/prescribed-fentanyl

This is a great offering from the National #SafeSupply Community of Practice and AVI Health & Community Services' SAFER Knowledge Translation & Exchange team. They will discuss early learnings from implementing prescribed #fentanyl as a safer supply option in #YYJ.

All NSS-CoP webinars are recorded & posted if you cannot attend live on Tues Jan 24 @ 1300 EST.

#HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #CanPoli #CanHealth

https://www.nss-aps.ca/event/prescribed-fentanyl