Summary
Mr. [Jon Gerrard]'s prescription for health focuses on reforms to the health authorities that fund hospital and community health services. Many of his suggestions are helpful: He calls for clearer lines of responsibility for RHAs, which often are reduced to catching up to the minister's latest promise, or fighting brushfires in a portfolio vulnerable to public outcry. Health authorities, not the minister, should be issuing data on the cost, the outcomes and the wait times of procedures performed and services delivered. He wants the funding of RHAs by "global" budgets to stop. Funding ought to be tied to the number of procedures and services delivered.
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Editorial - Liberal's Dose
LIBERAL Leader Jon Gerrard has called for substantial changes to the way health is administered in Manitoba....
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