{"id":19435,"date":"2022-08-20T17:20:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T21:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=19435"},"modified":"2022-09-17T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T21:22:36","slug":"ontarios-new-health-care-plan-falls-short-says-ndp-health-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/ontarios-new-health-care-plan-falls-short-says-ndp-health-critic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario&#8217;s new health-care plan falls short, says NDP health critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(August 19, 2022)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By: Jonathan Migneault, CBC News<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ontario government&#8217;s new five-point plan to ease health-care pressures doesn&#8217;t do enough to address severe staffing shortages, says NDP health critic France G\u00e9linas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Thursday Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced a new health-care plan meant to reduce pressure on hospitals and attract more health professionals to the province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plan would fund more surgeries at private clinics and would cover the exam and remove registration fees for internationally trained nurses who want to practice in Ontario.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">G\u00e9linas said that while covering those fees is a positive step, there are 10,000 physicians and 17,000 internationally trained nurses who are waiting to have their credentials assessed in Ontario.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;This is a solution that has been there for a long time,&#8221; she said, noting such steps should have been taken a while ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">G\u00e9linas said the province would also be able to fill a lot of nursing vacancies if it repealed Bill 124, which caps wage increases to one per cent over three years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I have nurses telling me it would make a huge difference,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;You know, every nurse is a human being. They have worked really hard in the last two and a half years with this pandemic and they feel so burnt out and at the same time, they feel not valued and not respected. It makes for a really hard time.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5425690.1662168066!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_780\/france-gelinas.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5425690.1662168066!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_300\/france-gelinas.jpg 300w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5425690.1662168066!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_460\/france-gelinas.jpg 460w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5425690.1662168066!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_620\/france-gelinas.jpg 620w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5425690.1662168066!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_780\/france-gelinas.jpg 780w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5425690.1662168066!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/france-gelinas.jpg 1180w\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"278\" \/><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nickel Belt MPP France G\u00e9linas is the NDP&#8217;s health critic. She says many nurses would return to health care if they were given more respect and better compensation. (Mathieu Gregoire\/CBC)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The province also announced it would pass legislation to more easily transfer patients in hospital, who longer need that care, to long-term care homes. But they wouldn&#8217;t necessarily be transferred to the long-term care home of their choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">G\u00e9linas said that&#8217;s a problem in northern Ontario, where a long-term care home might be located far away from a person&#8217;s home community and their loved ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Nobody that comes to visit you, it takes a heck of a toll on that frail, elderly person who feels they have no value,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Natalie Mehra, the Ontario Health Coalition&#8217;s executive director, agreed that the province&#8217;s five-point plan falls short.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;A whole lot of it was just sort of the same old, same old,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Nothing new on COVID 19. You know, nothing particularly new on the staffing crisis.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.6251170.1637093570!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_780\/natalie-mehra.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.6251170.1637093570!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_300\/natalie-mehra.jpg 300w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.6251170.1637093570!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_460\/natalie-mehra.jpg 460w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.6251170.1637093570!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_620\/natalie-mehra.jpg 620w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.6251170.1637093570!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_780\/natalie-mehra.jpg 780w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.6251170.1637093570!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/natalie-mehra.jpg 1180w\" width=\"484\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ontario Health Coalition executive director Natalie Mehra says the province has fallen short on past promises to address staffing shortages in health care. (Grant Linton\/CBC)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mehra said the provincial government&#8217;s past promises to hire more health-care workers haven&#8217;t gone far enough to address ongoing staffing shortages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;They&#8217;ve announced 6,000, then 18,000, then another 8,000,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You know, over and over for the last two years, those staff have not materialized.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mehra said plans to fund more surgeries at private clinics would mean more fees people would need to pay out of pocket, even if the procedure is covered by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve caught the majority of the private clinics charging patients literally thousands of dollars for surgeries and diagnostic tests,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Dr. Stephen Cooper, a physician based on Manitoulin Island and chair of the Ontario Medical Association district for northeastern Ontario, said the change would free up hospital resources for acute and emergency care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The hospital could continue to work on its core of keeping critically ill people alive and giving them the best chances for good quality of life,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cooper said offering more surgeries at private clinics will also give patients more choices about where to get their care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also approved of the proposed legislation to more easily transfer some patients from hospitals to long-term care homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I work at a nursing home and at the staff of the nursing home are much better equipped to look after patients that have dementia and the kind of conditions that land patients in an institution than the acute care nurses that are much better equipped at caring for patients who are post-cardiac, or have a bad pneumonia, or a fracture or something,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/sudbury\/health-care-plan-reaction-1.6555531\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Link to original article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(August 19, 2022) By: Jonathan Migneault, CBC News The Ontario government&#8217;s new five-point plan to ease health-care pressures doesn&#8217;t do enough to address severe staffing shortages, says NDP health critic France G\u00e9linas. 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