Doctors group asks Ottawa to put up $1 billion to solve doctor-nurse shortage
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TORONTO (CP) - The association representing Canada&#39;s doctors is calling on Ottawa to provide a whopping $1 billion to address the shortage of physicians and develop a strategy to ensure the country has enough health providers to care for patients in the ...
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Ottawa - Canada&#39;s premiers and territorial leaders released a health funding counter-proposal Tuesday, saying Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s offer of $24.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Day one of a national summit intended to fix medicare for a generation degenerated into a numbers war, with premiers poking holes into what Prime Minister Paul Martin claimed was a federal cash offer of $58.
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TORONTO - The Ontario government should impose a new contract on the province&#39;s doctors if they won&#39;t agree to its badly needed reforms, the chair of a federal commission on health care says.
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The doctor shortage in Canada is expected to get much worse in the next few years as more physicians retire, and others reduce their work hours to spend more time with their families, says a new survey.
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Health care specialists are calling on political parties to listen to the demands from medical professionals for higher wages.
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OTTAWA (CP) - On the heels of his well-publicized call for medical watchdogs to crack down on doctors working for Internet pharmacies, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh is asking his provincial counterparts to do their part.
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Canada&#39;s provincial finance ministers say the federal government has enough money to pay for &quot;significant&quot; changes to the health-care system, despite its pleas of poverty.
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OTTAWA - Canada&#39;s premiers and territorial leaders released a health funding counter-proposal Tuesday, saying Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s offer of $24.
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OTTAWA - Tempers flared at the national health summit on Tuesday over Ottawa&#39;s offer of short-term funding to address long waiting times for some medical procedures - a problem that some of the premiers tracked back to Paul Martin&#39;s term as finance
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The country&#39;s provincial and territorial health ministers forged ahead today with their push for a multibillion-dollar national pharmacare program despite continuing rejection of the idea from Ottawa.
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A private health care firm criticised for the way it runs its out-of-hours GP service in Wales has announced it is taking on more doctors.
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OTTAWA - &quot;It&#39;s show, and we don&#39;t have the dough,&quot; Premier Pat Binns said as he headed into the first day of a summit on health care in Ottawa.
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TORONTO - It appears the new agreement between Ontario&#39;s 21,000 doctors and the province&#39;s Liberal government is far more lucrative than the government will admit to.
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TORONTO (CP) - Ottawa has the money to set up and pay for a national pharmacare program despite its insistence to the contrary, provincial finance ministers said Friday.
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FREDERICTON - Premier Bernard Lord says he may be willing to give up on a national prescription drug program to get more money for health care from Ottawa.
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A group of doctors and hospital officials is asking the Minnesota Health Department to allow some health-care workers to get vaccinated for influenza.