Tag Archives: Local Health Integration Network

05.27.10
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Freedom of Information, the LHINs and the Ministry of Health

OPSEU recently submitted a number of freedom of information (FOI) requests to the Ministry of Health, one of which is still making its way through the system.

The early responses we have would suggest that “officially” little information is finding its way from the Local Health Integration Networks to the Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health’s access and privacy office has told us that the only way to gather this information is to apply separately to all 14 provincial LHINs. It would be up to us to collate this information to get a provincial snapshot of what’s going on.

One has to wonder how the Ministry is making policy decisions if it doesn’t really collect such information from the LHINs?


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05.17.10
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Realigning Ontario’s Approach to Small and Rural Hospitals to Serve Public Values

A report released Monday by the Ontario Health Coalition appeals for equity and improved access to hospital services in rural Ontario.

The 92-page document is based on input received from more than 1,150 people who attended 12 hearings in regions across Ontario in March.

The report was written and submitted to the Ontario Health Coalition by a non-partisan panel including doctors, nurses, health professional, representatives of each region of Ontario, and representatives active in each political party.

Read the executive summary release17may2010.

04.29.10
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A response to Tim Hudak’s call for the Health Ministry to end failed LHIN experiment

Posted by Ian:

A rebuttal to PC leader Tim Hudak from Julie White, representing the South West LHIN, on improving the healthcare system. Read the full document here. South West LHIN provides facts on improving the health care system

The Tim Hudak posting can be found here

04.28.10
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PC leader Tim Hudak calls on Health Ministry to end failed LHIN experiment

Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak Wednesday called for the end to Local Health Integration Networks, the agencies set up by the McGuinty government in 2006 to allocate provincial health dollars on a regional basis.

At a news conference in front of Victoria Hospital, Hudak called LHIN’s a “bloated bureaucracy” that costs money that should go to front-line health care.

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