How can we make our health care system better without spending more money?
The Health Council of Canada has started a national discussion about whether Canadians are getting full value for the $172 billion per year spent on health care. Get involved in the national conversation and share your thoughts on how to get the biggest bang for our health care buck. Follow this link to post your feedback on the message board http://www.canadavalueshealth.ca/discussion.
March 26th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
From an effective and efficient use of resources, a group of health care professionals who are often overlooked and whose skills are often not well understood are paramedics. Currently, there are paramedics working within the emergency departments of hospitals, but are often misused or unused because the people in charge do not know how to deploy them.
For instance, airway management–I’ve seen doctors struggle with intubating patients, when a paramedic (who often perform intubation in the back of a moving ambulance) stands idly by. Charge nurses relegate them to carrying bedpans when they could be assisting with patient care in many more meaningful ways. There are many, many efficiencies to be achieved if it weren’t for egos and ignorance.
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:29 pm
1/ Allow more students into the medical field, nurses, doctor, and health care aides.
2/ Cut the unnecessary beaucratic fat that exists in the governance of healthcare and hire more frontliners.
3/ Eliminate LHINS[Ontario] as it is a duplication of effort with the exception that they have literally no health care assistance.
4/ Cut the salaries of COE’s and mandate same.
Professionalise your expectations of all ionvolved in the field.
May 6th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
1. Reduce the number of pseudo ailments identified by “big pharma” and their subsequent over-prescription by doctors who are medicating too many seniors to death.
2. Place more emphasis on preventative medicine and provide tax incentives to those who are not over-medicating themselves. i.e catastrophic drug insurance does not address the root cause, and no credit is given to people like myself who use alternative or complementary medicine without literally costing the so-called health care system more than a few cents.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I hate to sound like a rude person but the brakes must be put on the illegals and immigrants whom are allowed into this Country with big time health problems that eat up the cost of our health care system; this must be monitored more closely.
This should be done with a proper computer based fully functional information gathereing system not designed by the Provincial or Federal Governments.
Most Health care Professional will on handle one simple aliament at a time when they can do more especially minor problems.