Hospitals continue to decline as a share of Canada’s health care spending according to recent data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). In 1975 hospitals accounted for 44.7 per cent of Canada’s health care spending. In 2008 CIHI estimates hospitals will represent 28 per cent of health spending – a drop of 2.7 per cent from 1998. The biggest increase in health spending has been on drugs, which now take up a greater share (17.4%) than physicians (13.4%). In 2008, spending on drugs was expected to grow by 8.3 per cent, compared to 5.8 per cent for hospitals and 6.2 per cent for physicians.
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Coming from a family of Registered Nurses (myself and my 3 daughters), we feel the brunt of cutting staff to save money to pay for the increasing costs of drugs, the “wasted” money for the EPR scandal, etc.
Who will give these expensive drugs if you lay off RN’s and/or burn out the ones you have left by overworking them to unsafe limits?? Who will have the time to fiddle with the EPR, and relearn it every time they decide to change it.
The patients/clients still keep coming in to the hospitals. Those numbers will not decrease, in fact seem to increase, as community services are decreased or are cut. I have seen too many situations where patients are waiting on stretchers in hallways for days for beds because beds have been closed due to staff cuts, being looked after by over-burdened, overwhelmed nurses. Are these people getting “quality health care”?