News & Events

  • May 4, 2012
    Drug spending by Canadians in the public and private sectors slowed in 2011, reaching an estimated $32 billion, according to a new report.   The Canadian Institute for Health Information's report, Drug expenditure in Canada, 1985 to 2011, showed drug spending is still increasing but the annual rate of increase is the lowest in 15 years.   The slowing in spending may reflect... Read More
  • May 3, 2012
    Of the dozens of promises rolled out on Alberta’s campaign trail, few have proven more controversial than one: family care clinics. The collaborative care clinics – a model used in several other provinces- would put nurses, doctors and other practitioners under one roof. The notion of more community-level health care is, of course, popular in theory, and experts agree... Read More
  • May 3, 2012
    EDMONTON - Premier Alison Redford’s election promise to build 140 family care clinics across Alberta has raised questions about the future of health care delivery in the province, experts say. Doctors, health policy professors and opposition parties are now waiting for Redford to explain how the new clinics will integrate with existing medical care, how she will measure success, and how... Read More
  • April 24, 2012
    Congratulations to our CHSPR student, Saskia Sivananthan,  who won CIHR/Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Research Awards.
  • April 24, 2012
    It sounds good, but according to Michael Law of the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, 25 per cent is still considerably more than the price of the same generic drug found in other countries. Last spring B.C. Health Minister Mike de Jong sang the praises of an agreement between our province and the pharmaceutical industry that established the price of generic drugs. Others... Read More
  • April 24, 2012
        March 30, 2012 By Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Morris L. Barer Expert Advisors EvidenceNetwork.ca OTTAWA, ON and VANCOUVER, BC, Mar. 30, 2012, Troy Media/ – After the mid-January meeting of the Premiers on the future of Canadian health care came the announcement of the creation of a working group on health care innovation to examine three critical issues related to the... Read More
  • April 24, 2012
    Thirty-six hospitals in Ontario will have their budgets cut by as much as 3%, provincial Health Minister Deb Matthews said Monday, as part of a new funding model that favours hospitals in high-growth neighbourhoods and ties funding to the quality of certain procedures such as cataract surgeries. It’s a move the government hopes will curtail rising health care costs. But what does a shift... Read More
  • April 24, 2012
      Supplier behind crisis could profit if its other plants land contracts The prospect of Sandoz profiting from a nationwide drug shortage caused by its Canadian subsidiary shows a "shocking" failure of federal leadership, critics charge. "It's shocking that the very company that caused the immediate crisis is the one that could benefit," said Libby Davies, the... Read More
  • April 24, 2012
    Ontario's pricing method is not the way to go Earlier this month, B.C.’s provincial government cancelled the current generic drug pricing agreement and announced they will be legislating lower prices this spring. In describing the planned legislation, Michael de Jong, the Minister of Health, said B.C. would follow Ontario’s lead and set prices at 25 per cent of the equivalent... Read More
  • April 24, 2012
      No surprise: Use drives up costs. So what can we do about it? The formation of an innovation working group, the major result of the provincial Premiers’ meeting in January, was a welcome idea. The trouble is that the list of topics selected by the premiers will do little (except indirectly) to address the fundamental challenge facing health care systems everywhere: controlling... Read More

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