Defend Public Healthcare: Paramedic Services in Canada: Structure, Privatization, Unionization and other issues

Governance and Funding:  While police and fire services are usually municipal services, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are typically controlled by provincial governments.  In Ontario, regional municipal governments have responsibility for delivering and funding EMS.  But even in Ontario the province plays a key role, strictly regulating EMS, providing funding for

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Defending Public Healthcare: Patient Transfer Changes Continue — Boon or Bust for EMS?

Another LHIN-based initiative to restructure  “non-urgent patient transfers” is underway. Non-urgent transfers are ambulance-like transfers for patients from hospital to hospital, from hospital to long-term care, or from hospital to home. While the cost of these transfers often simply come out of the hospital budget, austerity has made this more difficult.   The

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