Provinces Accept Healthcare Funding Handouts With Heavy Conditions

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Ottawa has inked health-care accords with five provinces just two weeks after presenting its $196.1 billion offer to premiers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday, paving the way for new investments and improvements to Canada’s ailing health system.

Ontario and the four Atlantic provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador have all signed memorandums of understanding to start negotiations on how Ottawa’s 10-year funding agreements will help improve outcomes for patients and working conditions for burned-out health care workers, Trudeau said

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Health Minister Sylvia Jones introduced a health-care reform bill on Tuesday that will allow more private clinics to offer certain publicly funded surgeries and procedures. Cataract surgeries and diagnostic imaging and testing will be expanded while the government will create an entirely new system to perform hip and knee replacement surgeries.

There are about 900 private clinics currently operating across the province, the vast majority of them for diagnostic imaging and testing. There are 25 private clinics that perform surgeries, largely for cataracts, Dale said.

Last year, hospitals performed nearly 37,000 hip and knee replacements. Jones has not set a target on how many of those would be done under the new system.