One of them, David Naylor, a former president and medical-school dean at the University of Toronto who chaired a government-sponsored examination of the health system in 2015, is doubtful that the kind of conversation required will happen in the heat of an election campaign. More spending is needed to beef up the system, he said, but so are reforms to the fragmented way health care is delivered and funded.
The plans for the Peel Memorial health care site, which currently provides non-emergency care, would expand it into an inpatient hospital with a 24-hour emergency room, while Brampton Civic Hospital would start offering radiation therapy for cancer patients. Critics have long called instead for a new standalone full-service hospital in Brampton, where they say population growth has long outpaced the health system.
Meanwhile, Ontario’s NDP Leader told a campaign-style rally in central Toronto that she would expand universal health care into mental health if her party forms government in June. Ms. Horwath’s mental-health plan would start by expanding access to counselling and therapy services, offering a minimum of six sessions of psychotherapy. It would also create a new Mental Health Ontario agency.
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