Opinion: Doug Ford is prioritizing profits for private clinics over medicare for all. Under the premier’s leadership, wait times for hospital beds have soared while the nursing crisis has escalated.
When the Doug Ford government took office in June 2018, it made a commitment to solve the problem of hospital hallway medicine. Indeed, the premier promised that hallway medicine would beThe best measurement of hallway medicine is time taken for Emergency Room patients to get a bed in hospital. The more hospitals are crowded, the longer it takes for admission to a hospital bed.
In June 2018, wait times for ER patients to get a hospital bed were recorded as 14 hours — not great and needing improvement. A year after the Ford government started, despite the premier promising a solution within a year, wait times had increased to 15 hours.Understandably, government has been focused on responding to the pandemic strain on Ontario’s hospitals. However, the government has placed limits on hospitals’ ability to reduce hallway health-care with its.
The government actually doubled down on its disrespect for nurses when Ontario’s Superior Court declared thatNow, in part, Ontario hospitals are facing the worse nursing vacancy in history. Nurses are leaving hospital work at an alarming rate, moving to other jurisdictions or agency work where salaries are better. Hallway medicine is made worse when hospitals have insufficient staffing.
Instead of prioritizing a solution to the 50 per cent increase in hallway medicine during their time in office, the government is focused on expanding the role of for-profit private clinics to address surgical backlogs.
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