Health

HEALTH – Health-care wait times cost patients millions in time, wages

May 31, 2017 // 2 Comments

By BACCHUS BARUA Senior Economist The Fraser Institute FOR MORE than two decades, the Fraser Institute has annually surveyed specialist physicians across Canada to estimate [Continue]

HEALTH – Families are key members of patients’ hospital care teams

May 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

By DONNA THOMSON Caring Connections FAMILY CARE is a key part of hospital care, so let’s start talking about it that way. When a loved one is admitted to hospital, family [Continue]

HEALTH – A caregiver’s perspective: Do you see what I see?

May 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

By VICKIE CAMMACK THE TERM VISIONARY is rarely used to describe natural caregivers. Yet vision is indispensable when we take care. No professional care provider, no matter [Continue]

ELECTION – What the Kamloops-South candidates said about health care

May 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Health care has been a major issue in the election campaign both locally and provincially. It was discussed extensively at the recent media-sponsored forum, as well as [Continue]

HEALTH – More isn’t always better: making better health-care choices

May 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

By WENDY LEVINSON EvidenceNetwork.ca EACH YEAR, at least one million unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures are done in Canadian health-care settings. This means that [Continue]

HEALTH – Sick and tired (and in pain) over health-care wait times

April 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

By BACCHUS BARUA Analyst The Fraser Institute VANCOUVER – The Canadian Institute for Health Information’s annual tracking of wait times for priority procedures is out and [Continue]