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A patient-centred health system is needed in Ontario, says Huron-Bruce PC candidate |
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Dear Editor: I would like to respond to (Huron-Bruce MPP) Carol Mitchell’s letter recently posted on your site. She is attempting to deflect criticisms of a record of waste, scandals and cover-ups. She does not deny or apologize for her government's waste of $1-billion on the eHealth scandal and its negative impact on health care initiatives. I care about making health care better. I care about cleaning up waste and scandals and I care about the need to provide the kind of safe and quality environment where our physicians and front-line health care workers can meet the needs of their patients. Mitchell won’t let the facts speak for themselves. This Saturday’s "Toronto Star" reports, ”Health care deteriorates as seniors wait for home care. With 4,500 seniors stuck in hospital beds, Ontario has the dubious distinction of having the worst hospital bottlenecks of any province in the country.” She is misleading you on my position on the Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) in London. During the recent all-candidates meetings, I stated very clearly: LHINS are not the real problem here, they are really a symptom of a deeper problem which is a government that is not focused on the patient. The Liberal government had 4,000 employees in the health ministry when it added hundreds more high-paying health executive jobs on LHINS. Decisions on your health care start with a $500,000/year health executive in Toronto, then go to a $300,000/year health executive at the LHINs, then to a $250,000/year health executive at your local health centre. They are also reviewed along the way by the LHINS board of directors, and your local hospital board of directors. The facts are clear, the $300-million cost for 14 LHINs across Ontario would pay for 154,000 consultations with a cardiologist or 30,000 MRIs or even 500,000 CT scans if the current government had focused its spending on the patient.
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What would we replace them with? A system
with more local decision-making and a focus on the PATIENT.
We will listen to our patients, local hospital boards, hospital foundations, physicians, nurses and health care workers and then we will develop a patient-centred system, not another layer of expensive bureaucracy. We will bring CHANGE to
eliminate waste and scandals and to improve services, such as health care and education. Lisa Thompson Scrolling stops when you move your mouse inside the scroll area. You can click on the ads for more
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