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The Federal Government Needs To Play a Stronger Leadership Role in Health Data Infrastructure
We lack data on the most basic components of our health workforce.
By Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Linda Silas
Canada’s health workers have been here for all of us throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. It is time for us to be there for them.
That’s why over 200 associations, healthcare unions, networks, educators and researchers are calling on the federal government to play a stronger leadership role by making significant investments in the data infrastructure to better plan for and support the health workforce.
Health care providers, advocates cry foul over stalled action on pharmacare
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Several times a week
A few times a year
Rarely/never
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves after holding a press conference in Ottawa on Friday, May 7, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
OTTAWA – Doctors and nurses on the front lines of Canada’s health system are sounding the alarm after the Liberal government appears to have put its promise of a national pharmacare program on the back burner.
When the Trudeau government delivered its first federal budget in two years last month, it included more than $100 billion in new spending over the three years.
Teresa Wright
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves after holding a press conference in Ottawa on Friday, May 7, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick May 11, 2021 - 1:00 AM
OTTAWA - Doctors and nurses on the front lines of Canada s health system are sounding the alarm after the Liberal government appears to have put its promise of a national pharmacare program on the back burner.
When the Trudeau government delivered its first federal budget in two years last month, it included more than $100 billion in new spending over the three years.
But while there was one brief mention of pharmacare in the 739-page document, it only re-stated a commitment from the 2019 budget of $500 million for a national program for high-cost drugs for rare diseases.
Health care providers, advocates cry foul over stalled action on pharmacare
by Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press
Posted May 11, 2021 4:00 am EDT
Last Updated May 11, 2021 at 4:14 am EDT
OTTAWA Doctors and nurses on the front lines of Canada’s health system are sounding the alarm after the Liberal government appears to have put its promise of a national pharmacare program on the back burner.
When the Trudeau government delivered its first federal budget in two years last month, it included more than $100 billion in new spending over the three years.
But while there was one brief mention of pharmacare in the 739-page document, it only re-stated a commitment from the 2019 budget of $500 million for a national program for high-cost drugs for rare diseases.