{"id":7441,"date":"2016-12-06T10:26:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T16:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/?post_type=post&p=7441"},"modified":"2016-12-06T10:26:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T16:26:13","slug":"opportunity-to-let-government-know-what-is-needed-to-make-healthcare-system-better-for-people-with-intellectual-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/opportunity-to-let-government-know-what-is-needed-to-make-healthcare-system-better-for-people-with-intellectual-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity to let government know what is needed to make healthcare system better for people with intellectual disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manitobans have an opportunity to let the Manitoba government know what is needed to make the healthcare system better for everyone and for people with intellectual disabilities.
\nConsultations are now underway for ideas and improvements to ensure the long-term sustainability of the province\u2019s health-care system and Manitobans are being reminded of the opportunity to share their views before the survey closes on Dec. 14, Health, Seniors and Active Living Minister Kelvin Goertzen said today.
\n\u201cSpending on health care in Manitoba is more than $6 billion each year, which is more than 46 per cent of the provincial budget, and this level of spending is not sustainable in the long-term,\u201d said Goertzen. \u201cEvery day, thousands of Manitobans use our health-care system. I want to hear their ideas on how we can make our system more efficient and effective.\u201d
\nThe Manitoba government is working with the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation to administer public and health-care provider surveys as part of the Health Care Sustainability and Innovation Review.
\nThe review is assessing spending against three criteria:
\n\u2022 economy \u2013 are activities implemented at a reasonable cost including the consideration of quality, per capita costs and unit costs for service delivery;
\n\u2022 efficiency \u2013 are the results appropriate when the investments are considered; and
\n\u2022 effectiveness \u2013 do actual outcomes meet the expected outcomes.
\n\u201cAn average hospital stay costs $6,152. Dialysis services for one patient can cost between $95,000 and $107,000 a year. With costs like these, we need to identify our priorities and make responsible, targeted investments,\u201d said Goertzen. \u201cWe want to hear directly from the people affected most \u2013 Manitobans \u2013 about what they think is needed to make our health-care system stronger.\u201d
\nThe survey feedback will be used to inform the recommendations of the review, the minister said, adding an initial report is expected by the end of January 2017.
\nTo take the survey before Dec. 14, visit www.gov.mb.ca\/health\/haveyoursay<\/a>.
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Manitobans have an opportunity to let the Manitoba government know what is needed to make the healthcare system better for everyone and for people with intellectual disabilities. Consultations are now underway for ideas and improvements to ensure the long-term sustainability of the province\u2019s health-care system and Manitobans are being reminded of the opportunity to share […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"post-topic":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":7441},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-topic?post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}