Deb Matthew : Liberals to outline Ontario health reforms
Ontario's Liberal government will give more power to local health agencies as it looks to overhaul the health system to lower costs.
Health Ministers Deb Matthew says local health integration networks, or LHINs, which administer funding to hospitals and co-ordinate care in each region, will be given responsibility for family doctors.
Matthews says the LHINs will help ensure patients have what she says will be a more seamless experience between doctor and hospital.
Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak calls LHINs a waste of taxpayers' money that take funding out of front-line health care to feather the nests of well-paid bureaucrats.
Hudak says people in Grimsby have waited more than a decade for a promised hospital but instead got what he calls "a shiny new office for LHIN bureaucrats."
Matthews says the province will also try to have more routine procedures performed at specialized, not-for-profit clinics instead of in hospitals to help save money.
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