By now, only the tone-deaf fail to understand that health and long-term care services are in need of reform. Not change, but reform. Traditional, conventional thinking and organization has gotten us to the point of serious inequity in access to effective primary care services, access to timely specialist services, access to urgent and emergency care, timely and effective mental health services, timely and efficient access to long-term care. The good news is, and it is really sad good news, that all provinces are struggling with these issues, some more than others, some at different levels than others.
In each of the regions of this province the practical manifestations of challenges with these issues varies. For instance, the worst of access to urgent and emergency care, as well as routine primary care, is apparently in urban areas, according to observations made by those directing Health Reform. There are many good reasons for the disparity.
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