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May 28, 2026The Urgent Call for Reform in Surgical Policy Making in Canada
Healthcare Policy Editorial by Jason Sutherland
Surgery policy is significantly undervalued from a health systems perspective as it affects millions of Canadians. A focused issue on surgery policy is one effort to draw policy makers and researchers to advances and identify additional topics where policy attention and additional research are needed to improve health and well-being.
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Dr. Cheryl Greenberg, Healthcare Professional and Clinician Scientist, Interim Co-CEO, Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba,
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Unlocking Surgical Capacity Through Collectable Time: A Multi-Level Policy Framework for Canadian Health Systems
A Journey of Integrating Indigenous Ways of Knowing in an Urban Integrated Youth Service in Manitoba
Beyond Silos and Perpetual Pilots: Data as the Catalyst for Canada’s Healthcare Innovation Revolution
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TOCSIN: A Proposed Dashboard of Indicators to Control Healthcare-Associated Infections
A Case Study: The Initiative to Improve RN Scheduling at Hamilton Health Sciences
Growing Practice Specialists in Mental Health: Addressing Stigma and Recruitment with a Nursing Residency Program
Healthy Workplaces and Teamwork for Healthcare Workers Need Public Engagement
Inter-facility Patient Transfers in Ontario: Do You Know What Your Local Ambulance Is Being Used For?
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Does Health Insurance Ensure Equitable Health Outcomes? An Analysis of Hospital Services Usage in Urban India
Decentralized Health Planning: Lessons from Two Districts in India
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The Canadian Dental Care Plan is expanding, but access challenges remain
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Why is B.C. the last province in Canada to allow cigarette sales in drugstores?
2026-05-31 from cbc.ca Should you still be able to buy cigarettes in British Columbia drugstores? It's a question that prompted a testy exchange in the B.C. Legislature earlier this week. "Cig [...]
National AccessAbility Week: May 31 to June 6, 2026
2026-05-31 from canada.ca This year's National AccessAbility Week theme is "Building a Strong, Accessible Canada." It invites all of us, including governments, businesses, organizatio [...]
Editor's Picks
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 [...]
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