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LETTER: Fleuelling Letters
(January 18, 2001) Correspondence by the Ontario Health Coalition to successive Ontario Ministers of Health regarding the inquest into the death of Joshua Fleuelling.
Read MoreRELEASE: Slamming Ontario’s Medicare Record: Coalition Calls for Decisive Federal Action
(September 11, 2000) Click here for Media Release
Read MoreLETTER: to Chretien Regarding First Ministers’ Meeting Health Care Proposals
(September 8, 2000) Click here for Letter
Read MoreLETTER: to the Minister of Health Regarding Concerns over the Introduction of a New Long Term Care Act
(August 14, 2000) We are writing with respect to your letter to Liberal Health Critic Lyn McLeod advising of your intention to introduce new Long Term Care legislation during the fall session.
Read MoreUPDATE: Long Term Care
(August 2000) News from around the province.
Read MoreSUMMARY: Public Pain, Private Gain: The Privatization of Health Care in Ontario
(Summer 2000) Click here for Summary
Read MoreRELEASE: Prime Minister Blasted for Inaction on Alberta’s Private Hospitals’ Legislation
(May 10, 2000) Click here for Media Release
Read MoreARTICLE: Hamilton Organizing Saves Hospitals
(May 2000) Our Provincial Coordinator, Lynn Simmons, advised the Administrative Committee that she is leaving the OHC and would like to do so by Sept. 1. We expressed our deep appreciation for the depth of contribution Lynn has made to the coalition and the movement to protect Medicare. From policy, research and education work, to […]
Read MoreFACT SHEET: The Emerging Crisis in Chronic Care
(May 2000) The Ontario government has shut down thousands of chronic care hospital beds.
Read MoreRELEASE: Community Activists Come Together in Sudbury to Form Local Health Coalition and Organize Public Forum on Privatization
(March 20, 2000) Click here for Media Release
Read MoreRELEASE: Demonstration in Toronto at Allan Rock’s Office Part of Coast-to-Coast Action to Preserve Medicare
(March 6, 2000) Click here for Media Release
Read MoreARTICLE: Beds in the NHS: The National Bed Inquiry Exposes Contradictions in Government Policy
(February 19, 2000) By Pollock and Dunnigan, British Medical Journal. ARTICLE
Read MoreEDITORIAL: Beds in the NHS: The National Bed Inquiry Exposes Contradictions in Government Policy
(February 19, 2000) Editorial in the British Medical Journal on the impact of the Private Finance Initiative (British version of P3s). Authors: A.M. Pollock and M.G. Dunnigan. EDITORIAL
Read MoreLETTER: to the Minister of Health Regarding the Long Term Care Act
(February 8, 2000) Re: Follow-up to Dec. 3/99 meeting with Anne Dundas, Special Assistant, Long Term Care
Read MoreLETTER: to Prime Minister Jean Chretien re. Alberta Proposals to Contract with For-Profit Hospitals
(February 3, 2000) Click here for Letter
Read MoreLETTER: to Chretien Regarding Alberta’s Proposal to Contract with For-Profit Hospitals
(February 3, 2000) Click here for Letter
Read MoreRELEASE: Witmer’s Home Care Policies Forcing Privatization
(January 24, 2000) Click here for Media Release
Read MoreRELEASE: Witmer’s Homecare Policies Forcing Privatization At All Costs, Even If It Costs More
(January 24, 2000)
Read MoreSUMMARY: Tipping the Balance: Health Care Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario
(2000) Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. SUMMARY
Read MoreRELEASE: Tory Support for Private, For-Profit Sector Increasing Cost of Health Care
(January 10, 2000) Click here for Media Release
Read MoreRELEASE: Tory support private, for-profit sector increasing cost of health care
(January 10, 2000) Cost of health care privatization of Ottawa Home Care services costing the public $830,000.
Read MoreFACT SHEET: Hospital Funding
(January 2000) FACT SHEET
Read MoreFACT SHEET: Hospital Funding
(January 2000) Patient classification has been a key development in hospital funding in Ontario.
Read MoreFACT SHEET: Patient Classification and Funding in Chronic Care
(January 2000) Patient classification has been a key development in hospital funding in Ontario.
Read MoreLETTER: to the Ministry of Health
(December 29, 1999) New Long Term Care Act being drafted without public consultation.
Read MoreRELEASE: Ontario Health Coalition warns Ontarians to get ready for new Long Term Care legislation
(December 7, 1999) The Ontario Health Coalition is today alerting the public to a major policy initiative that will affect all Ontarians and their entitlement to Long Term Care.
Read MoreRELEASE: OHC Charges Abuse of Process With respect to New Homecare Regulation
(August 11, 1999)
Read MoreLETTER: to Premier Mike Harris
(August 4, 1999) Regulation 386/99 under the Long Term Care Act limits access to homecare.
Read MoreJOURNAL ARTICLE: The Private Finance Initiative: The Politics of the Private Finance Initiative and the New NHS
(January-July 1999) British Medical Journal series on the privatization of primary care in Britain. Authors: A. Pollock, J. Shaoul and N. Vickers. PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4
Read MoreFACT SHEET: Health Facts: Privatization
(May 1999) FACT SHEET
Read MoreFACT SHEET: Homecare Fact Sheet #2
(May 1, 1999)
Read MoreFACT SHEET: Hospital Fact Sheet # 2
(May 1999) FACT SHEET
Read MoreFACT SHEET: Chronic Care
(May 1999) Chronic care is in for the fight of its life.
Read MoreFACT SHEET: General Long Term Care
(May 1999) The proposed change puts in a nutshell the philosophy of the Harris government in relation to all kinds of care, here specifically care for seniors.
Read MoreFACT SHEET: Long Term Care Facilities
(May 1999) Remember the Tory TV ads boasting of $1.2 billion to create 20,000 new long-term beds?
Read MoreRELEASE: OHC to Hold Media Conference Regarding New Homecare Regulations
(March 30, 1999)
Read MoreRELEASE: Organizations Announce Public Release of Government’s Draft Policies for Homecare
(March 30, 1999)
Read MoreRELEASE: OHC Calls for Full Public Consultation and Release of Crucial Long Term Care document
March 3, 1999) The Ontario Health Coalition is today urging the provincial government to immediately confirm or deny persistent rumours that it plans to fast-track new long-term care regulations without full public consultation.
Read MoreFACT SHEET: Hospital Fact Sheet # 1
(February 1999) Click here for Fact Sheet
Read MoreFACT SHEET: Hospital Fact Sheet #1
(February 1999) The provincial government has cut hospital budgets by $800 million …
Read MoreARTICLE: Pump Priming the PFI: Why are Privately Financed Hospitals Schemes Being Subsidized?
(Jan-Mar 1999) From the British publication “Public Money and Management”. Authors: Dr. Allyson M. Pollock and Declan Gaffney
Read MoreFACT SHEET: Homecare Fact Sheet #1
(January 1, 1999)
Read MoreFACT SHEET: Chronic Care Policy Issues
(January 1999) Patients requiring Chronic Care are facing some of the worst effects of Harris government and Health Service Restructuring Commission changes.
Read MoreSUBMISSION: Response to the Metropolitan Toronto Health Services Restructuring Commission Report
(April 21, 1997) The Ontario Health Coalition opposes recommendations for cuts, downloading and two-tier health.
Read MoreTRANSCRIPT: Public Patients, Private Profit?
(October 20, 1996) Andrew Dodd interviews Stephen Leeder. Transcript of an Australian radio documentary on P3 hospitals in that country. Click here for Transcript
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