AGP Executive Report
Last update: 12 hours agoWorkplace Mental Health: Calgary practice Your Counselling has launched a direct-to-employer support program, offering Alberta businesses access to its clinical team as an alternative to traditional employee assistance networks. Transplant Care: A $35-million gift from the Ajmera family will establish UHN’s Ajmera Transplant Institute. MAID Legislation: Bill C-41 would allow advance requests for medical assistance in dying if a person later loses capacity, subject to provincial safeguards—a proposal drawing sharp debate over consent and protections. SMA Treatment: Manitoba says its advocacy helped secure a national recommendation allowing people with spinal muscular atrophy to apply for drug coverage. Drug Costs: A Sandoz analysis estimates timely access to generics for more than 300 drugs losing patent protection could save Canadian public and private payers $94 billion over the next decade; it warns regulatory delays could erode those savings. Public Health: Canada’s measles outbreak has renewed concern about gaps in disease elimination, while a new report says deaths associated with wildfire smoke have risen 275 per cent over two decades.
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