(July 12, 2019)<\/p>\n
By: Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (CUPE)<\/p>\n
Recent comments by the\u00a0Ontario<\/span>\u00a0ministry of health reveal that despite a promise (reiterated this week) by the Premier to end hallway medicine, hospital cuts will intensify.<\/p>\n The Ontario Health Coalition and the Ontario Council of Hospital (OCHU) will hold a media conference\u00a0Monday, July 15, 2019<\/span>\u00a0(10 a.m.<\/span>) in the Queen’s Park media studio to review how well\u00a0Doug Ford’s<\/span>\u00a0Progressive Conservative’s (PCs) are really doing to enhance patient access to care.<\/p>\n For\u00a0Doug Ford’s<\/span>\u00a0Progressive Conservative government to keep its proposed budget plan for the next five years, “it is now apparent that the PCs will need to make larger cuts to hospitals (and health care generally) than previously estimated,” says OCHU president\u00a0Michael Hurley<\/span>. “This is in stark contrast to the Premier’s recent pronouncement that he will end hallway medicine within a year, which is, sadly, just magical thinking.”<\/p>\n