(The Gazette) Kudos to Allison Hanes' exceptional story on the children, their families and the care team at Le Phare, Enfants et Familles, Montréal's #pediatric #palliativecare home. All sick and dying children and their families should have access to this...

(CMAJ) Excellent modelling study to implement the successful NHS #diabetes #prevention program in Canada. IMO, this would absolutely contribute to #nationbuilding under the 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘢 𝘈𝘤𝘵. Imagine a population with controlled diabetes! #MajorProjectsOffice...

Bell Canada is deactivating legacy copper telephone lines without notifying in-home emergency alert providers. That means #seniors living #independently will lose access to their home monitoring services, like LifeLine. 40% of Lifeline’s Canadian subscribers still...

(The King's Fund) #Housing is not simply another public service. It is one of the foundations of public health. Birmingham UK (pop. 1.2M) has adopted a #HousingFirst approach to #homelessness and saw a dramatic reduction (81%) in #roughsleeping between 2018 and...

Interesting op-ed submission by a retired, 71-year-old stroke survivor on his access to personal support workers. After being hospitalized for 14 days, his #OntarioHealthatHome file was closed without a visit from a care coordinator and required him to re-apply. Is...

Chapeau aux trois gériatres de Santé Québec Capitale-Nationale pour la création d'une #clinique d'accès rapide pour les #aînés. Il faudrait absolument généraliser cette initiative afin de réduire les séjours prolongés aux urgences - une réduction de 10 heures...

Cet excellent article du Dr Michael Rheaume et de son équipe de l'Université d'Ottawa (en anglais seulement) et l'article connexe d'onFR sont révélateurs (https://bit.ly/3TgaZd1) . Les francophones vivant à l'extérieur du Québec qui communiquent avec leur médecin en...

(UK) @TheKingsFund view is that improving the interface between health and care depends on widening eligibility for publicly funded social care. This is also the case in Canada. Its 2026½ and we are all getting older. We need to improve this experience now and it...

CJAD 800 Montreal Elias Makos interviewed a healthcare worker who - once triaged - opted to travel to l'Hôpital générale de Hawkesbury General Hospital emergency department rather than wait an estimated 15 hours at downtown Montréal's CHUM (~75 minutes |~100 km)....

(Annals of Family Medicine) #Familydoctors in Canada saw their administrative #workload increase dramatically between 2011 and 2021. The growing burden is eating into patient care. Reversing this trend to eliminate or streamline administrivia must be a consolidated,...