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Deadline April 14, 2021: National Long-Term Care Services Standard Technical Committee
We are looking for people who share our passion for inspiring positive change that improves the quality and safety of health and social services.
We welcome you to apply or nominate someone to be a part of HSO’s National Long-Term Care Services Standard Technical Committee. The National Long-Term Care Services standard will provide LTC homes across Canada with evidence-based best practices to provide safe, reliable and high quality care for residents.
If you are interested in joining…
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On March 23rd, join The Globe and Mail's National Health Reporter Kelly Grant and leading experts as they explore and answer your questions about COVID-19 variants, discussing how they are spreading, the severity of the illness and if the currently available vaccines protect people from them.
For more details, visit https://www.globeandmaile…
CanCOVID Speaker Series: Critical Gaps in Health Workforce Data Infrastructure
Burnout was already far too common in the healthcare workforce before the pandemic, but COVID-19 has made the situation much worse. Healthcare workers in Canada are experiencing endemic levels of burnout directly related to understaffing and work overload. Join us as Dr. Ivy Bourgeault, uOttawa Chair in Gender, Diversity & the Professions, and Lead of the Canadian Health Workforce Network, discusses poor health workforce planning and why data to support planning is critical.
Dr. Ivy…
The Hill Times Policy Briefing on Health is out
The pandemic has made the topic of "health" top of mind for both the private and public sector. In this Health Policy Briefing:
- The latest on the COVID-19 vaccines and the vaccine rollout
- A look at the increasing need for long-term beds and resources for seniors; Canada’s aging population and the increasing pressure on Canada’s healthcare system
- What the Government of Canada is doing to deal with drug shortages
- The deepening opioid crisis…
PLOS ONE and our panel of expert Guest Editors are launching a new health services collection that will aim to address the different issues surrounding health care access, including physical and virtual access, quality of services provided and cost and affordability.
We encourage you to submit your research to PLOS ONE to be considered for this collection and help researchers around the world discover new insights into the health care services.
Collection research areas:
- Health services…
Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) COVID-19 Research Update - November 30
Older adults have been shown to be at greatest risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19. In response to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) expanded the scope of its research, launching a comprehensive questionnaire-based study to investigate the pandemic impacts on older adults, exploring how they cope, the effects on their physical and mental health, and changes to how they access health-care services. In fall 2020, a partnership with the…
COVID-19 | The Future of Long-Term Care by Royal Society of Canada | November 23
About this Event
In July, the RSC published a Policy Briefing called Restoring Trust: COVID-19 and the Future of Long-Term Care. What has been the impact of the report, and what are next steps?
MODERATOR | André Picard, Health columnist at The Globe and Mail and the author of six books.
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A dynamic review of the evidence around ongoing Covid19 symptoms (often called Long Covid).
Key Messages
The novel coronavirus (Covid19) pandemic declared by the World Health Organisation in March 2020 has had far-reaching effects upon people’s lives, health care systems and wider society. As yet there is little research into the number of people at risk of developing ongoing Covid19. Early attention has been on the acute illness generated by the virus, but it is becoming clear that, for…
Pandemic Perspectives — What we learned from COVID-19
Wednesday, September 23 | 7 - 8:30pm (MDT)
Registration: https://bit.ly/34yNaSm
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Alberta’s world-class researchers and scholars have been actively engaged in efforts to limit the spread of the virus, help local and global communities and find a cure.
Join a panel of UAlberta experts from the faculties of Medicine & Dentistry, Nursing and Public Health as they discuss the lessons…
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