Doctors group asks Ottawa to put up &#36;1 billion to solve doctor-nurse shortage
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TORONTO (CP) - The association representing Canada's doctors is calling on Ottawa to provide a whopping &#36;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 future.
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The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care should ask for its money back. It hired consultants to identify cost savings in the hospitals.
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Health Secretary Dr John Reid today moved to counter suggestions that the NHS is facing a crisis over the numbers of nurses. Earlier this week, the Royal
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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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A major survey of Canadian doctors revealed what most Canadians already know first-hand - there aren&#39;t enough family doctors for everyone.
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The nation's largest doctors' group on Thursday launched a multimillion-dollar media campaign to promote its proposals for helping uninsured Americans get health insurance.
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Biotech companies, medical device  makers and food manufacturers joined patient groups and three  former U.S. health secretaries on Monday in calling for  increased funding for the Food and Drug Administration.
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Policymakers and the medical profession need to recognize and take immediate steps to avert a looming shortage of physicians, analysts told a forum on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON  - Policymakers and the medical  profession need to recognize and take immediate steps to avert  a looming shortage of physicians, analysts told a forum on  Capitol Hill Tuesday.
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Many nurses in Canada are reaching retirement age and it is a sign of a chronic shortage of front-line health-care workers, according to a report published here Tuesday.
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OTTAWAâPolitical deadlock is looming over the coming first ministers&#39; health summit, with federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh stepping up his public criticism of the premiers&#39; proposal for a national pharmacare program.
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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (CP) - The country&#39;s premiers arrived for a key meeting Wednesday unsure on whether to try to force Ottawa to set up a national pharmacare program, but firmly convinced that more federal money for health is essential.
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A shortage of doctors, nurses and midwives around the globe is threatening health initiatives and could have dire political and economic consequences, public health experts said on Friday.
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Healthcare experts call for more funding, better training, and changes in institutional culture.
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OTTAWA (CP) - First the premiers snubbed Paul Martin's breakfast invitation. Then the prime minister reacted in kind to their demand for &#36;36.5 billion in new health-care funding.
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A national survey by three top doctors groups says Canadians access to health care is being limited by an extreme shortage of physicians.
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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 &#36;58.1 billion over 10 years.