Reforming psychiatric care

Reforming Health Care

Such an alarming statement has not been challenged---in fact it is even more widely accepted today. Indeed, throughout wealthy countries (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) we hear the same kind of systemic problems: • many doctors are disgruntled, overworked and professionally unsatisfied; • nurses are restless and in short supply; • popular demands for more health spending...

Reforming emergency care; for patients.

mergency care is important to me for lots of reasons, but for one in particular: it's important to patients. We know that A&E services—and by implication all the components that make up the whole emergency care system—are among patients' top concerns. Within A&E I believe a critical concern for patients is how long they have to wait for clinical care, and I can't blame them. When you are in pai...

Reforming health care in seven European nations.

Reforming health care in Canada: current issues.

This paper examines the current health care reform issues in Canada. The provincial health insurance plans of the 1960s and 1970s had the untoward effects of limiting the federal government's clout for cost control and of promoting a system centered on inpatient and medical care. Recently, several provincial commissions reported that the current governance structures and management processes ar...

Reforming long-term care financing through insurance

Until recently, insurance for long-term care was not viewed as feasible. This perception has changed dramatically in the past few years. Several models of long-term care insurance have begun to be tested. Although the application of insurance principles to long-term care is still new, the emergence of private market interest in developing long-term care insurance has been a catalyst to renewed ...