Doctors Ratify New Master Agreement:
Doctors NS warn government that this contract doesn’t come close to solving the major problems facing NS health care system. A blick 0.5% raise in physician fees for NS who are already one of, and for many specialties, the lowest paid in Canada. Combined that with the highest tax rates makes us wonder how they plan to attract […]
95,000 Nova Scotians have no family doctor…but it’s not a crisis.
by David Nurse in Nova Scotia’s future Last week, Sheldon MacLeod with News 95.7, had a number of guests on who discussed Nova Scotia’s physician shortage and how the Nova Scotia Health Authority is responding to this challenge. I went back over the weekend and listened to Sheldon’s interviews from May 19 with Dr. Lynn […]
CanAm Perspective: Talk of doctor shortage boils over in Nova Scotia legislature
CanAm Physician Recruiting called it a year ago when meeting with NS Premier, NS health system is on the brink of disaster. Followup meetings with top health bureaucrats confirm the ignorance is wide spread throughout the Department of Health and what is now the NSHA. Less than a year later the top is starting to blow as the […]
CanAm Completes Weymouth Contract; Health Authority Withdraws Support for Position in community with significant need
CanAm will complete its contract with the Weymouth Physician Recruitment Committee this month. Through the course of our work with Weymouth, we learned a lot about what is happening – and what is not happening – with the Nova Scotia Health Authority’s physician recruitment activities. CanAm was successful in identifying a strong potential candidate for […]
Provincial hiring practices benefit from third party input
This May 2, 2016 article from the Regina Leader-Post by D.C. Fraser highlights the responsibility that provincial governments and provincial medical associations have in the management of taxpayer funds in hiring and retaining physicians. In Saskatchewan, the processes that are in place now seem to be working in their goal of hiring and retaining physicians. […]
Cannabinoid Medicine’s rapid success through continued growth
There is a lot of talk in the media these days about Medicinal cannabis and how successful these clinics might be. Canada’s largest and most reputable is Cannabinoid Medical Clinics (CMC); headquartered in Toronto this clinic has, in the past 10 months gone from one clinic in downtown Toronto with two physicians to 6 clinics with upwards […]
Time to champion regionalization of Licensure
This April 15, 2016 Medical Post article by Dr. Sarah Giles once again addresses the high cost of credentialing and licensing for physicians seeking to do locum work in neighbouring health boards and provinces. CanAm has been out spoken on this issue. What the general public and government officials don’t realize is that we are talking about thousands for dollars not […]
“Too many doctors” in Nova Scotia? It sure doesn’t feel that way.
Submitted by David Nurse Have you seen this article about how we have “too many doctors” in Nova Scotia? http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/doctors-hiring-rules-halifax-family-doctors-1.3540172 I find this really bizarre, and I’d like to get your thoughts on it. To me I see a real disconnect between the Liberal government and the Health Authority on this issue. The Liberal government […]
How the 2016 federal budget affects incorporated physicians
Many physicians were nervous about how their professional corporations would fate when the 2016 federal budget was unveiled. But incorporated doctors were, overall, happy to see that what they most feared — losing a small business tax deduction — didn’t happen. There were also no changes to income splitting with family members — another tax-planning […]
PEI physician opposes regional licensing for doctors
CanAm perspective: Having four licensing colleges in Atlantic Canada with less than two million people makes absolutely no sense. You only have to look south of the border and around the world to see we really only need one licencing college for all of Canada. If anything, it is a major road block for recruitment. It takes a […]
