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International Health Perspectives: Comparing Primary Care in Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands

Taking inspiration from German and Dutch health systems could help improve access to primary care providers such as family doctors, according to this MEI publication. “The lack of access to primary care providers such as family doctors is being felt in other parts of our health system, which are forced to deal with more numerous and more acute cases,” explains Krystle Wittevrongel, co-author of the publication.

Canada is hemorrhaging nurses

The provincial government’s attempt to force nurses to work for its own system, rather than for independent agencies, has backfired, and patients have suffered the cost.

Mr. Houston, we have a health-care problem

While travel nursing agencies are costly, they are not the problem, so much as they are a symptom of the way our health system is run. And until the government of Nova Scotia tackles this personnel retention problem, the province’s healthcare woes will remain.

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