Canada Emergency Rooms

As Canadians reflect on the last year and make resolutions for 2023, physicians on the front lines of Canada’s ailing health system are also taking stock — and they say immediate and long-term action is needed to address systemic…

A lack of urgency to improve and expand access to mental health and addictions care across the country is contributing to the “crisis” in Canada’s emergency rooms, as mental health patients who need help often have nowhere to go but…

Health-care practitioners across Canada are closely watching a promised overhaul of British Columbia’s payment model for family doctors – changes that some say are a “step in the right direction” toward addressing a “crisis” in family…

COVID-19 vaccines for children under five in Canada have been available for more than three months, but so far only a small fraction of eligible kids have received a pandemic shot, which is prompting doctors to sound the alarm as…

Emergency room doctors say patients are experiencing “dangerous” wait times in ERs across the country and it’s time federal and provincial governments stop pointing fingers over the “crisis” in health care and instead come up with…

With some children’s hospitals in Canada experiencing significant surges in patients, emergency wait times have started to soar. Wait times in the emergency department at CHEO in Ottawa were over 10 hours Thursday morning, and on…

Canada’s premiers are dialing up the political heat in their efforts to get Ottawa to increase federal health transfers to the provinces and territories. The premiers have launched a new advertising campaign through the Council of the…

The Trudeau government is facing mounting pressure to act more urgently on its election promise to create a new $4.5-billion mental health transfer — a pledge that has stalled despite critical gaps in care that are contributing to…

Emergency physician Dr. Raghu Venugopal doesn’t mince words when describing the realities his patients have been facing in the emergency departments in which he works in Toronto.“It’s really a dire situation,” he said after a recent…

It started as headaches, nausea and feelings of pressure in his head – things most people attribute to stress, dehydration or a simple virus.But when Dylan Harris started briefly losing his eyesight three months ago every time he…