Anti-smoking activist Barb Tarbox died in 2003 Ten years after she died of lung cancer, Barb Tarbox is still helping Albertans kick the nicotine habit, thanks to a new campaign launched by Alberta Health Services. Albertans are encouraged to share their stories of quitting or never starting tobacco use to mark the 10th anniversary of the [...]
Alberta Health Services centralized bureaucracy misses all its performance targets By Robert Gerst Last Tuesday board chairman Stephen Lockwood defended the decision to proceed with bonuses for senior managers at Alberta Health Services. As might be expected, the bonuses have produced considerable protest from the public as well as concerns from the government currently [...]
Homeopathy as pseudoscience Troy Media – by Timothy Caufield “By granting self-regulation, we’re attesting, as elected representatives, to the public that we believe the practices that will be engaged in by professionals are safe and that they’re effective and that they meet the highest possible standard.” The above statement was made earlier this year [...]
Premier Alison Redford’s looking for ‘best deal possible’ with doctors, but is it about the money? By David Climenhaga Is the increasingly bitter fight between Alberta’s government and the province’s physicians just about money? It’s said here it’s more about who gets to control the health care system. If you need evidence for this assertion, [...]
Inquiry testimony suggests pricey private clinics – nudge-nudge, wink-wink – really can engineer preferential treatment By David Climenhaga What appears to be the first confirmed example of methodical and systematic queue jumping uncovered by Alberta’s Health Care Preferential Treatment Inquiry emerged this week and, lo and behold, it involved the operations of a private medical [...]
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