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Spotlight
June 16, 2026Implementation of Registered Nurse Prescribers in Nova Scotia
This commentary by Cindy MacQuarrie, Nancy Cashen and Sohani Welcher offers perspectives from the Nova Scotia (NS) RN prescribing steering committee and shares the achievement that took place in NS when a learning health system approach was applied. Available in this sponsored issue of Nursing Leadership
Health Policy Off Script!
This weeks' episode Health Workforce - What's the Plan? features Arthur Sweetman, Professor of Economics, Director, Health Policy PHD, McMaster University.
Past episodes include guests Janet Davidson and Kelly Lamrock. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Featured Articles
Expanding Surgical Access in Canada Through Self-Governing First Nations
Warmth When It Matters Most: Addressing the Overnight Needs of Homeless Emergency Room Patients
Accelerating Innovation and Technological Transformation on a National Scale
Articles
TOCSIN: A Proposed Dashboard of Indicators to Control Healthcare-Associated Infections
A Case Study: The Initiative to Improve RN Scheduling at Hamilton Health Sciences
Growing Practice Specialists in Mental Health: Addressing Stigma and Recruitment with a Nursing Residency Program
Healthy Workplaces and Teamwork for Healthcare Workers Need Public Engagement
Inter-facility Patient Transfers in Ontario: Do You Know What Your Local Ambulance Is Being Used For?
News
10 years of legal medical assistance in dying in Canada — the data so far
2026-06-18 from globalnews.ca Medical assistance in dying (MAID) was legalized in Canada on June 17, 2016. Here’s a look at some notable numbers since that time. These numbers are current as o [...]
Parliamentary committee recommends against MAID expansion for mental illness
2026-06-17 from cbc.ca A special parliamentary committee will recommend that the federal government indefinitely pause the expansion of medical assistance in dying for people whose sole underlying co [...]
New report will share recommendations on assisted dying for mental illness
2026-06-17 from globalnews.ca A parliamentary committee studying medical assistance in dying for people with mental illness is expected to deliver its report to Parliament today. A group of MPs and [...]
Editor's Picks
This paper argues that improving surgical outcomes while controlling costs requires viewing surgery as one step within a full episode of care, from pre-operative optimization through post-operative recovery. We contend that Canada's current fee-for-service and block-funding models fragment this continuum, reward volume over value and misalign incentives between ministries, hospitals and surgeons. Drawing on agency theory and international bundled-payment experience, we propose an episode-of-care [...]
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