The plan, first announced last month, is aimed at reducing the backlog of patients waiting for surgery, a list that ballooned during the pandemic
The Ontario government has tabled its promised draft health care legislation that could allow more publicly funded surgeries and other procedures in for-profit clinics, something critics have warned would siphon scarce staff away from struggling hospitals and undermine public health care.
According to a government summary of the bill, called Your Health Act 2023, it would, if passed, “put into law that people will always access insured services at community surgical and diagnostic centres with their OHIP card and never their credit card, consistent with the [federal] Canada Health Act.”
Applicants to open new clinics will be required to outline how their centre would “improve patient wait times and improve patient experiences” and its plans to “integrate with the health system.” New centres would have to “provide a description of current linkages with health system partners,” the summary says.
To address the widespread concerns that such clinics will steal scarce nurses and other staff, the government says the draft legislation would also require new clinics to “protect the stability of doctors, nurses and other health-care workers at public hospitals and other health-care settings,” with the submission of a “detailed staffing model.” New clinics will also be required to show how they consulted with public hospitals before winning a licence.
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