New health deal needs transparent monitoring and evaluation process to make sure health-care outcomes improve

Canada must provide timely, equal, and equitable access to resilient, safe health care while being accountable to the public.

In many instances, wait times can result in poorer medical outcomes, transforming potentially reversible illnesses or injuries into chronic, irreversible conditions or even permanent disabilities, writes Gail Attara and Louise Binder, who lead lead Patients for Accountable Healthcare.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY GAIL ATTARA AND LOUISE BINDER

April 24, 2023

The Canadian health-care system is letting us down. Cancer care is just one of the many disease areas harmed by the pandemic resulting in a lack of access to doctors, hospital beds and operating rooms. We need to do better.

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