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A Reformed and Sustainable System
- Maintaining
Quality of Care - For Ontarians to receive the quantity
and quality of nursing care they need and deserve, we need
the right number and mix of RNs, practising in the right
places, under the right terms and conditions. That means
we need an infusion of new RNs, support for senior nurses,
and a reformed health-care system within which they work.
With the second oldest nursing workforce in Canada and the
third-worst nurse-to-population ration, Ontario has a lot
of work to do to put the profession on a solid footing to
meet the health-care needs today and in the future
- Challenges
to Sustainability - The biggest threat to the health-care
system’s sustainability is not higher health-care
costs. The federal government has provided a significant
infusion of health-care funds and has accumulated a surplus
while provincially, program spending on health as a percentage
of the GDP was between 5 and 6 per cent of GDP over the
past 10 years. The real problems are creeping privatization
and expansion of for-profit delivery and the severe shortage
of health-care providers like registered nurses.
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| RNAO executive director
Doris Grinspun rallies with colleagues at the Council
of the Federation strategic planning meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake
July 28-30, 2004, calling for the expansion of public
finding and not-for-profit health care delivery that builds
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