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June 16, 2026

Implementation of Registered Nurse Prescribers in Nova Scotia

This commentary by Cindy MacQuarrie, Nancy Cashen and Sohani Welcher offers perspectives from the Nova Scotia (NS) RN prescribing steering committee and shares the achievement that took place in NS when a learning health system approach was applied. Available in this sponsored issue of Nursing Leadership

Health Policy Off Script!

 

This weeks' episode Health Workforce - What's the Plan? features Arthur Sweetman, Professor of Economics, Director, Health Policy PHD, McMaster University. 

Past episodes include guests Janet Davidson and Kelly Lamrock. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Jun 16, 2026 Health & Healthcare News
NexJ Health Moves to Lessen the Pressure on Primary Care in Ontario

Toronto —  June 16, 2026 — NexJ Health is proud to announce that its partner, Black Creek Community Health Centre (BCCHC), has been named a Grand Prize Winner of the Type 2 Diabetes P [...]

Jun 16, 2026 Health & Healthcare News
Undervalued and underpaid: New SOGC President Calls for End to Gender Pay Gaps in Women's Health in Canada

2026-06-16 from finance.yahoo.com Women across the country are enduring unacceptably long wait times for diagnosis and treatment of painful conditions like endometriosis, fibroids and other chro [...]

Jun 16, 2026 Health & Healthcare News
More countries are pushing for youth social media bans. Is the world reaching a tipping point?

2026-06-16 from cbc.ca With an increasing number of countries implementing social media bans for young users, there's a growing sense that these restrictions are becoming more common and that social [...]

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This paper argues that improving surgical outcomes while controlling costs requires viewing surgery as one step within a full episode of care, from pre-operative optimization through post-operative recovery. We contend that Canada's current fee-for-service and block-funding models fragment this continuum, reward volume over value and misalign incentives between ministries, hospitals and surgeons. Drawing on agency theory and international bundled-payment experience, we propose an episode-of-care [...]