Funding for Alberta private surgical facilities growing faster than for public hospitals, report shows
The Parkland Institute report raises concerns about the government's declining investment in public hospitals while funding ...
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Costs swelled and so did surgery wait times under Alberta Surgical Initiative: Parkland Institute
A new Parkland Institute report looks at how the cost of procedures at for-profit surgical clinics increased a whopping 79 ...
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Private investments eroding public health care, Parkland Institute report finds
A new report by the Parkland Institute, titled “Operation Profit: Private Surgical Contracts Deliver Higher Costs and Longer ...
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UBC health-policy expert Steve Morgan castigates governments for scrapping mask mandates
SFU PhD student and health-policy researcher Andrew Longhurst has also criticized the end of mask mandates. "Masks are/have been essential to mitigating uncontrolled transmission," Longhurst ...
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Startling increases in outsourced surgical costs tend to corroborate claims of contract irregularities made by fired AHS CEO: Parkland study
Analysis of public data showing startling increases in the cost of outsourced surgical procedures in Alberta that cannot be ...
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Andy Longhurst- MA/PhD Geography
Andy Longhurst is a Researcher & Policy Analyst with the Health Sciences Association of BC, a union that represents over 18,000 health and social care professionals working in over 250 hospitals and ...