Reforming health care in Canada, one community organization at a time

Increased funding is long overdue for the mental health-care system in Canada, but government can’t just throw the money at a problem and hope it goes away.

There needs to be more coordination between primary health-care systems and community mental health organizations in all of our regions, writes Dave Gallson, the national executive director of the Mood Disorders Society of Canada.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY DAVE GALLSON

February 6, 2023

The pandemic has demonstrated in so many different ways that our health-care system is in desperate need of reform. While surgery backlogs, staff shortages, and overflowing emergency rooms are only some of the major issues that need to be fixed, we’ve also learned that the...

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