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  • Letter: Removal of legislative/regulatory barrier to allow Nurse Practitioners to prescribe testosterone
    Monday, March 31, 2014 - 11:17

    Dear Deb,

    Re: Removal of legislative/regulatory barrier to allow Nurse Practitioners to prescribe testosterone

    In October 2013, the Federal government brought into effect, the New Classes of Practitioners Regulations under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. This change authorizes nurse practitioners to prescribe, administer and provide certain controlled substances in accordance with the Benzodiazepines and other Targeted Substances Regulations, Part G of the Food and Drug Regulations and the Narcotic Control Regulations. Some provinces are working to amend their laws to permit NPs to prescribe controlled substances under these federal regulations and it is in this context that I am writing to you.

  • Letter: HPV Vaccination Program
    Monday, March 31, 2014 - 11:16

    Dear Minister Matthews,

    This letter is to urge the government of Ontario to expand the current publicly funded Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Program targeted to females to a universal model that would be gender inclusive for all, including males.

  • Letter: Paramedicine in Ontario: Consideration of the Application for the Regulation of Paramedics under the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991
    Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 00:00

    Dear Ms. Lee:

    On behalf of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) we support the Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council’s (HPRAC) finding that:

    … the applicant did not pass the risk of harm threshold. Changing the regulatory regime from indirect regulation by government to self-regulation by the profession is not in the public interest. Public safety and quality of care are sufficiently upheld at this time through the current oversight system.
  • Letter: Minimum Wage Increase
    Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 01:00

    Dear Premier Wynne,

    Thank you very much for your response to our request from January 27th, to raise the minimum wage rate in the next provincial budget to $14 per hour.

  • Letter: Review of the Local Health System Integration Act and Regulations (Standing Committee on Social Policy)
    Friday, January 31, 2014 - 16:52

    Introduction:
    In 2006, the Ontario Government established the Local Health System Integration Act (LHSIA). The purpose of this act is to:

    … provide for an integrated health system to improve the health of Ontarians through better access to high quality health services, co-ordinated health care in local health systems and across the province and effective and efficient management of the health system at the local level by local health integration networks.

  • Letter: Raise Minimum Wage to $14 per Hour
    Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 12:26

    Dear Premier Wynne,

    Ontario's nurses urge you to increase the minimum wage in the next provincial budget, to $14.00 per hour.

    The minimum wage has been frozen, since 2010, at $10.25 per hour. Nurses know this has had a serious, negative impact on minimum wage workers in Ontario. With rising cost of food, rent and electricity, a worker employed full-time on the minimum wage, now has an income that is 19 per cent below the poverty line. It is unacceptable to us that someone working hard at 40 hours a week, on minimum wage, should still be living in poverty in a province as affluent as Ontario. The province’s 534,000 minimum wage workers deserve much better.

  • Letter: Review of the Local Health System Integration Act and Regulations (Standing Committee on Social Policy)
    Monday, January 27, 2014 - 16:15

    Introduction: In 2006, the Ontario Government established the Local Health System Integration Act (LHSIA).

    The purpose of this act is to:

    … provide for an integrated health system to improve the health of Ontarians through better access to high quality health services, co-ordinated health care in local health systems and across the province and effective and efficient management of the health system at the local level by local health integration networks.

  • Letter: Ontario Pre-Budget Submission 2014: Finding the Right Balance
    Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 14:33

    Ontario Pre-Budget 2014: Finding the Right Balance - Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

    Summary of Recommendations

    Fiscal Capacity

    1. Ensure the fiscal capacity to deliver all essential health, health care, social, and environmental services by building a more progressive tax system
  • Letter: Developmental Services (FASD)
    Monday, January 13, 2014 - 01:00

    Good morning,

    My name is Kathy Moreland Layte. I am a registered nurse and professor of nursing from Kitchener, Ontario. I am here today representing the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO). RNAO is the professional association representing registered nurses wherever they practise in Ontario. Since 1925, RNAO has advocated for healthy public policy, promoted excellence in nursing practice, increased nurses’ contribution to shaping the health-care system, and influenced decisions that affect nurses and the public they serve.

  • Letter: Community Paramedicine
    Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 01:00

    Dear Tamara,

    Thank you for your e-mail correspondence on December 5, 2013 inviting the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) to participate in the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s consultation on community paramedicine (CPM).