http://www.healthedition.com/new Premiers are meeting in Winnipeg next week for their annual Council of the Federation meeting and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall will be urging them to follow his lead in promising to fund trials of a controversial new treatment for Multiple Sclerosis. However, he is prepared to go it alone in pu ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8405 The Quebec government is reported to be considering reducing the number of specialists practicing in Montreal as of next year.

The Montreal Gazette said Thursday that the government opened discussions with the federation representing medical specialists (FMSQ) last month on a pla ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8406 Nurses have tended to provide some of the most guarded appraisals of health care in the annual Health Care in Canada surveys conducted between 1998 and 2007.

In 1999, just 63 per cent of nurses surveyed said Canadians receive quality care. This dipped to a low of 52 per cent in 2 ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8407 Many countries are seeking to expand the role of their nursing workforces, and they have much to learn from countries like Canada that have had the longest experience in using advanced practice nurses mdash; commonly known as nurse practitioners.

This is the advice of a recent wo ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8408 A front-page story in the Calgary Herald Monday said Albertarsquo;s electronic health record project could end up costing $1.4 billion by the time it is finished. However, it observed that there is no target date for when that will be.

The story said $674 million has been spent t ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8409 nbsp;The federal government has announced $110 million over two years for the Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (ADI), as promised in the 2010 budget.

The ADI was established in 1999 to deliver a range of primary prevention, screening and treatment programs in partnership with Triba ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8410 Ontario is expanding its Pay for Results program for hospitals to shorten ER wait times. Through a $100 million investment, an additional 25 hospitals are being added to the program bringing the total to 71. Since it was introduced in 2008, the program has helped participating hospitals lower ove ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8414 Consultations begin in Newfoundland and Labrador next week on a new provincial long-term care and community support services strategy. The strategy has been in development since February 2008, and in the legislature on June 24 Health Minister Jerome Kennedy said the province faces a shortage of a ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8415 The Canadian Medical Association will be releasing its plan for reforming health care next Tuesday, August 3. The plan, Health Care Transformation in Canada: Change that Works. Care that Lasts, will be discussed at the upcoming CMA annual meeting in Niagara Falls, August 23-25. (News release) ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8416 McGill Universityrsquo;s medical school is no longer requiring applicants write the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). It believes it will be able to attract more francophone students since there is no French version of the MCAT and it is not used by French-language and bilingual medical scho ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8417 Some Quebec patients living east of Montreal are being directed to private clinics for ultrasounds because wait times in the public system are so long. Wait times of more than a year are being blamed in part on a shortage of radiologists at area hospitals. The use of private clinics is putting a ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8418 The fourth Access Centre has opened in Winnipeg, offering a range of health, social and community services. The new facility will also offer some special programs such as diabetes education and support, nutrition counselling and Aboriginal health outreach. ldquo;Combining this variety of services ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8419 An eight-week helicopter air ambulance pilot project is underway in Kamloops, B.C. The helicopter and Critical Care Transport paramedics will attend emergencies that are further than 30 minutes away by ground ambulance from Royal Inland Hospital. Studies have shown that timely air ambulance patie ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8420 Prince Edward Island should be reducing its complement of family physicians over time as it turns more to primary-care team practices, a draft Hay Group report for the government suggests. The report says the number of physicians could go down from 94 to 65. It apparently proposes that the number ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8421 Both major Saskatchewan newspapers commented Thursday on Premier Brad Wallrsquo;s announcement this week that his government is prepared to fund clinical trials into CCSVI treatment for MS.

The Regina Leader-Post said the premier has raised huge expectations among the provincersq ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8422 The Ottawa Citizen (July 28) commented on the problems of delivering health care in rural areas. Winchester District Memorial Hospital, about an hourrsquo;s drive south of Ottawa, is the first rural teaching hospital in Eastern Ontario and the Citizen said it is on the right track by trying to im ... http://www.healthedition.com/new/article.cfm?articleID=8423