No respite for Ontario patients: new report says five times more hospital beds needed than planned by Ford government

Health Care, OCHU, Solidarity

New analysis shows province faces a 13,800 shortfall of hospital beds by 2032 Ontario’s hospital capacity crisis will worsen in the coming years as government funding will fall short of even maintaining current levels of service, according to a new research report produced by CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE). Citing latest data on…

CMAJ study showing lower income people have less access to for-profit cataract surgeries must force a reconsideration of policy, says hospital union

Health Care, OCHU, Solidarity

TORONTO – In response to new research showing that wealthy Ontarians are disproportionately benefiting from for-profit clinics, CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions is demanding the province halt public funding for private surgeries and invest in cataracts provided by public hospitals. A study by the Canadian Medical Associations Journal released yesterday says that surgical rates…

“Premier’s callous response to hospital crisis stark contrast to the suffering of patients and staff:” says OCHU/CUPE at launch of new peer-reviewed study heralding warning for Ontario

Health Care, OCHU, Solidarity

TORONTO – The Premier’s recent comments in the media shows “a callous attitude” towards the hospital crisis, where overcrowding has increased by 30 percent since 2018, said Michael Hurley, president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE), referring to Doug Ford’s gaffe about overflow patients having the option of receiving treatment at a new…

“I loved going to work when I first started. Now I dread it:” new study warns that Ontario’s hospital staffing crisis will worsen as morale plummets

OCHU, Solidarity

TORONTO – A new peer-reviewed study released today in Toronto warns that Ontario’s hospital workers, most of whom are women and many racialized, are in deep turmoil as they labour through an intensifying staffing crisis that is harming their well-being and compromising patient care. Running on Empty, published in New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental…

Hospital workers demonstrate at Peterborough MPP’s office against government’s expansion of private, for-profit hospital services

Municipal, OCHU, Solidarity

While the Ford government plans to double private delivery of MRIs and CT scans, OCHU/CUPE says underused hospital operating rooms should be better utilized   PETERBOROUGH, ON – Hospital workers protested the Ford government’s rapid expansion of healthcare privatization outside Ontario PC MPP Dave Smith’s constituency office in Peterborough this morning. In June, the government…

Hospital workers demonstrate at Pickering MPP’s office against government’s expansion of private, for-profit hospital services

Health Care, Municipal, OCHU, Solidarity

While the Ford government plans to double private delivery of MRIs and CT scans, OCHU/CUPE says underused hospital operating rooms should be better utilized   PICKERING, ON – Hospital workers protested the Ford government’s rapid expansion of healthcare privatization outside Ontario PC MPP Peter Bethlenfalvy’s constituency office in Pickering this morning. In June, the government…

Hospital workers demonstrate at Brockville MPP’s office against government’s expansion of private, for-profit hospital services

Health Care, OCHU, Solidarity

While the Ford government plans to double private delivery of MRIs and CT scans, OCHU/CUPE says underused hospital operating rooms should be better utilized   BROCKVILLE, ON – Hospital workers protested the Ford government’s rapid expansion of healthcare privatization outside Ontario PC MPP Steve Clark’s constituency office in Brockville this morning. In June, the government…

Hospital workers demonstrate at Hamilton MPP’s office against government’s expansion of private, for-profit hospital services

Health Care, Municipal, OCHU, Solidarity

While the Ford government plans to double private delivery of MRIs and CT scans, OCHU/CUPE says underused hospital operating rooms should be better utilized   HAMILTON, ON – Hospital workers protested the Ford government’s rapid expansion of healthcare privatization outside Ontario PC MPP Neil Lumsden’s constituency office in Hamilton this morning. In June, the government…

Hospital workers demonstrate at Ottawa MPP’s office against government’s expansion of private, for-profit hospital services

Health Care, OCHU, Solidarity

While the Ford government plans to double private delivery of MRIs and CT scans, OCHU/CUPE says underused hospital operating rooms should be better utilized   OTTAWA – Hospital workers protested the Ford government’s rapid expansion of healthcare privatization outside Ontario PC MPP Lisa Macleod’s constituency office in Ottawa this morning. In June, the government announced…

Hospital workers demonstrate at Kenora MPP’s office against government’s expansion of private, for-profit hospital services

Health Care, Municipal, OCHU, Solidarity

While the Ford government plans to double private delivery of MRIs and CT scans, OCHU/CUPE says underused hospital operating rooms should be better utilized   KENORA, ON – Hospital workers protested the Ford government’s rapid expansion of healthcare privatization outside Ontario PC MPP Greg Rickford’s constituency office in Kenora this morning. In June, the government…