Preventing the poaching of staff is the top concern hospitals have about a new system of private clinics that will be used to cut the surgical backlog, the head of the Ontario's hospital association said.
Anthony Dale, the president of the Ontario Hospital Association, said there will be many risks along the way as Ontario looks to private facilities to tackle the backlog that currently stands at 206,000 procedures.
The government said there will be safeguards to prevent hospital staff being taken away by the new surgical centres. Organizations applying to be designated as those centres will have to show staffing plans that don't negatively affect the publicly delivered part of the health system, which includes hospitals.
"I'm reassured with the high-level commitment, but there is a lot of work to do to figure out the details and make sure that what actually is put in place is effective enough," he said. "That's the thing that we have to be very alive to as we move to create this new model of care," Dale said. Dr. Nancy Whitmore, the organization's registrar, also said the college told the government it was concerned the new system would create further strain on an already stressed health-care system.
"I can easily see the requirement for direct connections between hospital and clinics in order to deal with uncertainty and risk."One area of particular concern is what happens when complications, although rare, occur during a hip or knee replacement in the new clinics.
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