Important concerns raised in this article. Especially since the contracts awarded to for-profit cataract centres pay the Herzig Clinic about 20% more per case than ON hospitals. Tax payers inevitably pay more in for-profit surgery centres. thestar.com/opinion/contri…

Doug Ford is willing to give Herzig- one of his reliable donors- our money, with a 🍒 on top. Private healthcare is not more efficient, it is just MORE. #BetterMedicare #onpoli

Profit is an extra cost, you don't have to be a member of the mensa club to figure that out. And please don't tell me that silly nonsense about efficiencies. #onhealth

Agree that about 50% of surgery needs to move out of hospitals into community Ramunas Saplys - with Orthopaedics leading the way. But these community centres should be not-for-profit. Otherwise both taxpayers and patients will lose.

🇨🇦 needs to move surgeries to community centres- shown safe & ⬆️es patient volumes by 25-30%. NFP surgery centre goal is: ⬆️ quality & ⬇️ cost. For-profit surgery centre goal is: ⬆️ profit. Why pay more to FP centres when we can have NFP centres? thestar.com/opinion/contri…

With respect there are plenty of ON examples of not-for-profit community surgical centres doing many more cases. Kensington Eye Centre is great example, London's HULC, TOH Riverside. Community surgery works best with not-for-profit leadership- and that can come from a hospital.

Bob Bell I’m trying to be unbiased, plan is to try to attract private money to increase access. But “Gone is the requirement that clinics be inspected by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. No new inspecting authority is identified.” I think that’s a risk.

BC got it right, its Court of Appeal got it right & now the Supreme of Canada got it right. Canadians want universal #healthcare. If any government violates the #CanadaHealthAct, a class action law suit by a team of lawyers from every political stripe is necessary. plsrt!l

Excellent review of seniors care in Oz & useful comparisons to 🇨🇦 from National Institute on Ageing 🇨🇦 & Samir Sinha team. Occupancy in 🇦🇺 LTC is only 85%. More seniors are institutionalized than in 🇨🇦- but ALC rates in acute care are lower in 🇦🇺. Well worth a read. static1.squarespace.com/static/5c2fa7b…

Bob Bell National Institute on Ageing 🇨🇦 Samir Sinha Interesting read, thanks for posting Bob.

Important article by Elizabeth Payne 🇨🇦 regarding inter-provincial for-profit surgery. Jean-Yves Duclos should examine this loophole in the Canada Health Act. ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new…

People who think the average Canadian can pay thirty thousand $$s for cancer surgery are either out of touch or out of compassion.

Two immediate fixes to shorten surgery wait lists: 1) e-referral and common triage surgery referrals; 2) move surgery out of hospitals to not-for-profit community surgery centres. Adopting these two measures would shorten waits by 30%. For everyone.

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TY John Malcolm Your view certainly agrees with the surgery literature which demonstrates faster throughput in community operating rooms versus in-hospital ORs. To be clear, community ORs should still be managed not-for-profit- ideally by a hospital. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Important commentary from Keith Ambachtsheer. A sustainable 🇨🇦 health system requires that seniors have sufficient income. This article describes how that can happen. theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

Bob Bell UHN Foundation Thank you for the books you share.

To keep them working in the public system, Canadian nurses need better support and working conditions. Important article. Nurses have profoundly lost trust in health care leadership theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Thx for your leadership Dr. Kwame McKenzie

Important article on terrible risks of community surgery centres that are not subject to hospital not-for-profit quality programs. Surgery needs unbiased quality oversight. For profit centres can't provide unbiased quality assessment. Ontario beware. nytimes.com/2023/07/15/hea…