Author: CanAm Recruiting

Family Physician Job Posting of the Month – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  Clareview Medical Clinic 3504-A 137Ave NW, T5Y 1Y7 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada   This is your chance to live in a Canadian city ranked among the best places to live in North America. It is a city with education and arts as the center of its cultural life, an outstanding place to raise a family, […]

UK NHS managers pump a further £150m more into emergency services this winter

It seems that Canada isn’t alone in its efforts to calm the Emergency Department ‘beast’, as the UK too must implement extra-ordinary measures to cope with public demand for EM services… the UK’s CCGs will receive an extra £150m from NHS England to help hospitals cope with winter pressures in A&E departments. The money will […]

ER wait times and caregiver support in Newfoundland and Labrador

In the Newfoundland and Labrador legislature Tuesday, NDP Leader Lorraine Michael asked about ER overcrowding at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s, and she said the problem has persisted despite an ER Wait Times Strategy launched last year. Health and Community Services Minister Susan Sullivan said “incredible progress” has been made, “but it does […]

Patient off-loading ER waits in Manitoba

In the Manitoba legislature on Monday, Progressive Conservative Health Critic Cameron Friesen said the problem of lengthy patient off-load wait times at Winnipeg hospitals is getting steadily worse. The city, which runs the ambulance service, is fining the health region for waits of over an hour to offload patients because of hold-ups in the ER. […]

ER overcrowding in Saskatchewan

In the Saskatchewan legislature the government has been questioned about the emergency department overcrowding situation in Regina. ER physician staffing levels at the two city hospitals are about a third lower than they should be, and the Regina Qu’Appelle health region is considering the necessity of reducing the number of hours at one of them […]

Canadian Emergency physicians call for action

The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) has released a position paper listing recommended national wait-time benchmarks for various stages of an emergency department visit. It also says hospital wait times for these benchmarks should be reported on a national basis, and performance linked to incentives and infrastructure investment. The CAEP says the problem of […]

Canadian Study finds for-profit seniors’ care deficient.

Study finds for-profit seniors’ care deficient   Serious concerns about the state of elder care in Alberta have been raised in a report from the Parkland Institute in Edmonton. It found a significant gap in staffing levels between facilities, a situation that is “far more dire in for-profit facilities.” The report said that based on […]

It is now a Race Against the Clock to meet needs of aging population: CMA

Preparing for an aging population is a race against the clock, the Canadian Medical Association said in a pre-budget submission to the Commons Finance Committee Wednesday. The CMA wants Ottawa to invest in a pan-Canadian continuing care strategy focused on seniors. (Submission at www.cma.ca/multimedia/CMA/Content_Images/Inside_cma/Submissions/2013/Pre-Budget-Submission-2013-2014_en.pdf)

Family doctors grade Ottawa’s health-care performance

Family doctors grade Ottawa’s health-care performance The College of Family Physicians of Canada has given the federal government poor grades for its involvement in health care. In a report card released Wednesday, the College gave colour-coded scores for five areas “where the federal government has a role in making or keeping our health care system […]