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A 2006 New York Times article entitled "Canada's Private Clinics Surge as Public System Falters" said that the "Cambie Surgery Center"—"Canada's most prominent private hospital— was operating in plain view of health authorities as a "rogue enterprise". By 2006, Cambie, which was founded by Dr. Brian Day, Cambie's medical director and ...
When the contract finished the facility was taken over by Warrington & Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. [16] This was in spite of the centre achieving the highest patient satisfaction ratings of all NHS providers, zero MRSA or C-diff in over 20,000 procedures, and a petition signed by over 10,000 to retain Interhealth Canada as the ...
Valley Regional Hospital; Lunenburg. Fishermen's Memorial Hospital [10] Middleton. Soldiers Memorial Hospital; New Glasgow. Aberdeen Hospital [11] Sheet Harbour. Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital [12] Springhill All Saints Springhill Hospital [13] Sydney. Cape Breton Regional Hospital; Sydney Mines. Harbourview Hospital [14] Tatamagouche. Lillian ...
Labour has hit back, defending the use of private hospitals to tackle record-high waiting lists. A party spokesperson argued that patients can’t afford to wait for ideological purity, stressing ...
The Niagara Health System, or Niagara Health (NH), is a Canadian multi-site hospital amalgamation, comprising five sites serving over 450,000 residents across the 12 municipalities making up the Regional Municipality of Niagara, Canada. Niagara Health is one of Ontario's largest hospital systems, with 4,800 employees, 600 physicians and 850 ...
The Canada Health Act of 1984 "does not directly bar private delivery or private insurance for publicly insured services," but provides financial disincentives for doing so. "Although there are laws prohibiting or curtailing private health care in some provinces, they can be changed," according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine ...
An NHS spokesperson said: "While latest data shows NHS staff are making progress to cut waiting lists and tackle the backlog, we know there is much more to do to bring down long waits for care ...
Labour says it wants to ensure 92 per cent of patients receive care within 18 weeks of referral within the next five years, and has pledged to deliver an extra 2 million NHS appointments a year to ...