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. 2025 Feb;20(2):6-16.
doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2025.27560.

From Talking to Action: Changing Healthcare in Provinces and Territories

Fiona Clement  1 , Jason M Sutherland  2
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From Talking to Action: Changing Healthcare in Provinces and Territories

Fiona Clement et al. Healthc Policy. 2025 Feb.

Abstract

There is no doubt that healthcare systems in Canada's provinces and territories are under duress - staffing problems, costly technology adoptions and barriers to accessing care are endemic. Among those who are already ill, the systems' problems create frustration, anxiety and even unchecked disease progression for some people. The worst instances are seen in the media almost daily; the result is an erosion of trust among the Canadian public who had been assured that high-quality medically necessary services would be accessible when needed.

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