The Canadian Institute for Health Information has released a new report which lays out the key areas that governments need to focus on in order to improve struggling health-care systems, including collecting more comprehensive data, addressing surgical backlogs, retaining workers and improving mental health care access.
The Canadian Institute for Health Information has released a new report, which lays out the key areas that governments need to focus on in order to improve struggling health-care systems.
"This report provides a look at challenges that exist around the country. Over the coming years, transparent public reporting using comparable data from modernized health systems will be an important aspect of the improvement effort. It's an important step in working with all levels of government as they work to improve health services for Canadians."
In February 2023, an Ipsos poll found that the percentage of Canadians reporting their health care as "good" fell since the start of the pandemic. In 2020, 72 per cent of Canadians surveyed rated the quality of their health care as good, compared to just 60 per cent in 2023.Right now, around 88 per cent of Canadians report having a regular health provider, according to CIHI. This data comes from surveys run between 2019 and 2021.
Many family doctors have left their practices since the start of the pandemic, leaving some Canadians struggling to find providers, especially in rural and remote areas. According to CIHI, the Atlantic provinces had the highest percentage of respondents who said that providers in their area were not taking new patients.
"The idea is to triage patients — figure out who wants a family doctor, who has an urgent need and start creating an attachment program for the people who need a doctor most."In the first two and a half years of the pandemic, there were around 743,000 fewer surgeries performed in Canada, a decrease of 13 per cent compared to before the pandemic.
Around 18 million overtime hours were worked in that time period in Canada's hospitals, representing the work of around 9,000 full-time jobs – a stark reminder of how woefully understaffed and overworked our health-care system is. Canada has 47 active integrated youth services sites currently, with 25 under development. Nearly half of these are in Ontario, which has 22 active and eight in development. Nunavut, Yukon, P.E.I., Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have zero active integrated youth sites, but New Brunswick and Nova Scotia have three and one in progress respectively.
"Accessing mental health care takes a very long time, even when a youth is in crisis for months. About five months prior to being hospitalized the first time, my family doctor advised my parents to take me to hospital due to being in a mental health crisis," a 19-year-old patient identified as Hannah stated in the report. "Even when a youth goes to the emergency department suicidal, you get sent back home without care and put on a wait list.
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