The agreement must still be approved by the OMA’s membership. ...
Category: Health and COVID-19
‘We won’t have to wait much longer,’ for deal with docs on binding arbitration, health minister says
A deal would pave the way to restart negotiations on a contract for physicians, who have gone four years without one. ...
Medically assisted dying bill passes third reading
Liberals and NDP in support of the legislation while the Progressive Conservatives opposed it out of concern for “conscience rights” for caregivers. ...
Tories table bill to enshrine ‘conscience rights’ in assisted-dying law
Health Minister Eric Hoskins accused the PCs of voting down amendments twice that would “reinforce and reiterate, as the federal legislation did, conscience rights for health care providers.” ...
Ontario Liberals to use pharmacare plan to push other provinces for national solution
Health Minister Eric Hoskins says using the new pharmacare plan for young people to influence other provinces is a "very good comparison" to what was done with the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan. ...
Budget 2017: Liberals unveil universal prescription drug coverage for kids, young adults
At street level, young people need only present a health card at a pharmacy to walk away with cost-free prescription meds. ...
Liberals move to calm for-profit fears ahead of community care takeover
A sea change in the community care sector has stoked concerns about privatization. ...
Health minister holding out for national pharmacare, not NDP made-in-Ontario plan
The NDP pharmacare plan, first announced by leader Andrea Horwath Saturday at the New Democrats’ convention, would create a list of 125 “essential” medicines for which Ontarians would pay no more than a $6.11 co-payment ...
Seen: Naloxone kits run $1 million bill
As of March, more than 28,000 naloxone kits have been distributed. ...
Seen: Liberals enshrine patient care co-ordination service in medically assisted death bill
MPPs on the finance committee passed the government's amendment to "establish a care co-ordination service to support patient access to medical assistance in dying and other end-of-life options in Ontario." ...
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