A recent case involving a patient harmed in an overcrowded ED highlights the need for a fresh look at how NZ investigates clinical errors.
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New research suggests doctors are carrying the emotional burden of health system failures, adding to workforce pressures in New Zealand and beyond.
Vaccine uptake is not just a behavioural issue. Challenges like childcare and transportation rarely come up in public conversations about hesitancy, but they play a major role in who gets vaccinated.
Canada has quietly become an unexpected leader in global obesity care guidelines, but care at home — where one in four adults now lives with obesity — remains slow and uneven.
Pharmac could base its purchasing decisions on how much health improvement the same amount of money would achieve in other parts of the health system.
Research shows hospital administrators can better plan for how they’d cope if a disaster or terrorist attack impacts a hospital’s ability to function as normal.
New Zealand’s proportion of domestically-trained nurses has fallen to just over half, making it a global outlier. We urgently need a proper workforce strategy like Australia has now introduced.
The way pharmacare is implemented could contribute to the Canadian health insurance system’s transition toward a more contentious and unequal American-style system with heavy administrative burdens.
National Cabinet is meeting today to discuss hospital funding, and the interconnected issues of NDIS reform and GST allocation. But how are hospitals actually funded? And what’s GST got to do with it?
Access to dental care in Australia is worse than ever and is simply unaffordable to many.
Publicly funded primary and home care should be accessible to all older adults, regardless of where they live.
Each encounter that health-care students have with patients and families helps them understand real-world patient needs. That means all Canadians have a role in educating future health-care providers.
Now is the time to learn from the COVID-19 response through an action-oriented independent inquiry focused on accountability. Reforms to data generation, access and use are essential.
Health outcomes continue to be influenced by geography, with local communities having to plug gaps in services. The health reforms offer a chance to strengthen local networks to respond better.
There are concerns about how health data are used, but research shows support for uses with public benefits by health-care providers, governments, health-system planners and university-based researchers.
Immigration might be making it easier for doctors to enter New Zealand, but if the licensing process doesn’t change we still risk losing much-needed skills to other countries.
Hospitals are struggling, with ambulances ramping outside emergency departments and patients facing long waits for care. But doing more of the same won’t fix the problem.
Adding more beds won’t fix emergency department pressures. Neither will one-size-fits-all processes. But improving patient flow and addressing staff shortages might.
To prevent a shortage of health workers, public expressions of appreciation need to be backed by policies that provide dignity, decent working conditions, accountability and appropriate remuneration.
The need to transfer 2,500 COVID-19 patients around Ontario, and bring in extra doctors from other provinces, exposes two fallacies about Canada’s health-care system.
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Professor of Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia
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PhD Candidate in Development Studies, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor (adjunct) and Senior Fellow, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor | Schlegel Chair in Clinical Epidemiology & Aging | Canada Research Chair in Integrated Care for Seniors, McMaster University
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Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Economics, Monash University
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Schlegel Research Chair in Geriatric Medicine, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Director: Interprofessional Education Unit, University of the Western Cape
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Director of Translational Institute of Medicine (TIME), Queen's University, Ontario
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President, CEO Canadian Institute for Heath Information (CIHI), and Adjunct professor in the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
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Director of Research/Associate Professor - Paramedicine, Monash University