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					<title><![CDATA[Une évaluation des besoins en matière de santé en cours pour la région de Fredericton]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Une &eacute;valuation des besoins en mati&egrave;re de sant&eacute; a &eacute;t&eacute; lanc&eacute; pour la r&eacute;gion de Fredericton. &laquo;Un comit&eacute; consultatif a &eacute;t&eacute; mis sur pied afin de coordonner ce projet. [...] La collectivit&eacute; participera &agrave; cette initiative qui vise &agrave; d&eacute;terminer les besoins en mati&egrave;re de sant&eacute; ainsi que les moyens d'assurer la prestation efficace de ces services de sant&eacute; dans la r&eacute;gion,&raquo; affirme la ministre de la sant&eacute;, Madeleine Dub&eacute;. Le minist&egrave;re de la Sant&eacute; aidera &agrave; financer cette initiative et appuiera le R&eacute;seau de sant&eacute; Horizon dans la cueillette des donn&eacute;es et de l'information sur la sant&eacute; de la population explicites &agrave; la r&eacute;gion. L'&eacute;valuation aidera &agrave; cerner les priorit&eacute;s en mati&egrave;re de sant&eacute; et de mieux-&ecirc;tre, ainsi qu'&agrave; pr&eacute;parer des strat&eacute;gies visant &agrave; garantir que la prestation des services de sant&eacute; tient bien compte de ces priorit&eacute;s.]]></description>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>		
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					<title><![CDATA[New Brunswick halts funding to obesity clinic]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Brunswick's Department of Health has cut funding to a medical clinic in Bathurst that treats people with obesity problems. The clinic, which opened in May, has about 800 patients who are overweight and tend to have problems such as high blood pressure or diabetes. Health Minister Madeleine Dub&eacute; said she wants to encourage physicians to help patients with preventive medicine, but has not elaborated on why the clinic's funding has been halted. The department had provided the clinic with approval to hire a nurse, a nutritionist, dietician and exercise trainer; the health professionals gave patients advice on how to change their lifestyle to avoid the complications from being overweight. The clinic can only now be paid to prescribe pills or a test, or to refer patients to a specialist. The clinic's doctor said that leaves her no room for preventive medicine.]]></description>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>		
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					<title><![CDATA[Drummond report on Ontario's spending stresses home-based healthcare]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[About a quarter of the 360 recommendations included in economist Don Drummond's austerity report on Ontario are aimed at healthcare costs, with Drummond pushing to move services out of hospitals and toward home-based care. Recommendations include: capping healthcare budget increases at 2.5% annually, down from the current 6.5%; freezing doctor's wages; expanding the roles of nurse practitioners and pharmacists; increasing mental-health spending; and moving services online, including appointment scheduling, prescriptions refills and test results. The report also said Ontario can no longer afford to pay for all prescription drugs for everyone aged 65 and older. Drummond is recommending more importance be placed on community-based care and the government stop negotiating with doctors about what services and procedures are covered by OHIP. It should instead give the Health Quality Ontario expanded powers to determine what is and is not publicly covered. He adds that Ontario's 14 LHINs should be given additional powers to oversee healthcare in each region, incorporating primary care into their mandate. Drummond also said Ontario should Nova Scotia's lead and have paramedics provide home care when they are not on emergency calls. The report garnered a slew of responses from healthcare organizations, including: the Ontario Hospital Association, Ontario's Naturopathic Doctors, RNAO, ONA, OMA, and OCHU.]]></description>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>		
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					<title><![CDATA[Ontario: les Centres d'accès aux soins communautaires vis à améliorer le système de santé]]></title>
					<link>http://shiftportal.com/nbhealth/redirection/index.cfm?id=17170</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Un document (disponible en anglais seulement) publi&eacute; par les Centres d'acc&egrave;s aux soins communautaires (CASC) de l'Ontario met en relief trois recommandations strat&eacute;giques qui permettraient d'acc&eacute;l&eacute;rer l'adoption du Plan d'action de l'Ontario en mati&egrave;re de soins de sant&eacute;. Les recommandations sont les suivantes:

    Int&eacute;grer les soins de sant&eacute; en milieu familial aux R&eacute;seaux locaux d'int&eacute;gration des services de sant&eacute; (RLISS) au moyen d'un mod&egrave;le solide de coordination des soins;
    Mettre l'accent sur les besoins complexes d'une population vieillissante gr&acirc;ce &agrave; une gestion approfondie et intersyst&egrave;mes des cas; et,
    Am&eacute;liorer la qualit&eacute; et la responsabilisation au moyen de mod&egrave;les de financement novateurs ax&eacute;s sur les patients.
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					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>		
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					<title><![CDATA[Alberta to pay pharmacists for prescription renewal]]></title>
					<link>http://shiftportal.com/nbhealth/redirection/index.cfm?id=17156</link>
					<description><![CDATA[The Alberta government announced that its 2012-13 Budget contains a 7.9% increase to $15.9 billion for the Ministry of Health and Wellness. The budget includes funding for prescription renewals by pharmacists, enhanced home care services for seniors and expanded addiction and mental health services. This includes $20 million for prescription renewals by pharmacists and $5 million for expanded support for rural and remote pharmacies. The Edmonton Journal reports that up to 1,000 pharmacy locations will be able to provide the service, starting July 1. Renewal privileges don&rsquo;t extend to narcotics. The fee to pharmacists will be $20 per renewal. The provincial government will offset the costs for the service by reducing the price it pays for generic prescription drugs, which will reportedly free up $85 million for the government in 2012-13. The president of the Alberta Pharmacists&rsquo; Association called the expansion of pharmacy clinical services "good news."]]></description>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>		
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					<title><![CDATA[Report looks at healthcare financing models for Canada's public health systems]]></title>
					<link>http://shiftportal.com/nbhealth/redirection/index.cfm?id=17178</link>
					<description><![CDATA[The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation has published its fifth paper in a series on healthcare financing models. This paper presents five expenditure scenarios for Canada as a whole, each of the 10 provinces and the territories for the period 2010 to 2035. It finds that real per capita public healthcare spending can be expected to grow anywhere from 78% to 115% and reach dollar levels of between $6,552 and $8,798 per capita by 2035. Potential policy solutions to make healthcare more sustainable are presented.]]></description>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>		
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					<title><![CDATA[Study looks at impact of remuneration and organizational factors on preventive services in primary care practices]]></title>
					<link>http://shiftportal.com/nbhealth/redirection/index.cfm?id=17180</link>
					<description><![CDATA[This study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal compares the delivery of preventive services by practices using four different primary care funding models: fee-for-service, community health centres, family health networks, and health services organizations. Conducted in Ontario, the study found no model clearly associated with superior preventive care. Researchers found that, compared with prevention scores in practices in the new capitation model, scores were significantly lower in fee-for-service practices and practices in the established capitation model, but not for those with salaried remuneration. Compared with reference practices, those with at least one female family physician, a panel size of fewer than 1,600 patients per full-time equivalent family physician and an electronic reminder system had superior prevention scores.]]></description>
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