Service reductions and bed closures will be considered only if lower-risk measures exhausted: ministry Allison Jones · The Canadian Press · Posted: Oct 20, 2025 2:03 PM EDT Ontario's Ministry of Health tasked hospitals to plan to balance their budgets within three years, assuming annual funding increases of two per cent — half of what they have received in recent years. (Patrick Morrell/CBC News) Ontario's Ministry of Health has tasked hospitals struggling with deficits to co

Ontario Health Coalition October 17, 2025 Come to the Ontario Legislature Wednesday October 29. Host a legislature watch event in your community if you are not close enough to Toronto to attend.   The situation is extremely urgent.   At stake is our public medicare, health services and funding in our local public hospitals. Don’t let Ford destroy them.   We cannot let two-tier medicare and the charging of patients thousands of dollars for surgeries and diagnostic tests to bec

The survey reveals 46 per cent of physicians report high levels of burnout , a slight decline from 53 per cent in 2021, but still well above pre-pandemic levels. By Mason DePatie Published: October 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM EDT A survey from the Canadian Medical Association finds doctors are still facing serious mental health challenges, years after the COVID-19 pandemic. Five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly half of Canadian physicians say they’re still deali

Hospitals struggling to bring in more money without hitting patients' pocketbooks, association says Allison Jones · The Canadian Press · Posted: Oct 08, 2025 'Hospitals are facing kind of a multitude of complex challenges,' says Melissa Prokopy with the Ontario Hospital Association. The organization is asking the province to increase funding for hospitals in the province to cover a $1 billion deficit. (Nicole Osborne/The Canadian Press) Ontario hospitals need an additional $1

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