Health committee  As you know, most provinces in Canada don't really have a central booking system or a system to prioritize appointments appropriately. A number of systems have the ability to ensure that all the examinations requested at the primary care level are appropriate. However, improving

Health committee  As someone who works in a tertiary and quaternary care hospital, I can tell you that, right now, non-COVID-19 patients, on the whole, are really suffering because of the pandemic. Clearly, they need very serious attention. The health care system is already underfunded, grappling

Health committee  That's an excellent question. As Dr. Barry clearly explained, Canada was already behind in capital equipment investment before the COVID-19 pandemic. Investments were already needed pre-pandemic, with our equipment assets significantly below the average among countries in the Org

Health committee  You raise a good point. I'll give you a brief overview of what we are dealing with at the clinical level. Patients have been broken down into four priority categories. Category one—sometimes called P1—patients have to be seen the same day; in other words, they are emergency cas

Health committee  Yes, you're absolutely right. A month is a reasonable time frame. When we strongly suspect a patient has cancer, we have to speed up the process as much as possible. The problem is that we can't confirm the patient has cancer until they undergo medical imaging. Most patients who

Health committee  Basically, it's based on recommendations from all radiological societies across the country.

Health committee  We have very close collaboration with the American College of Radiology and with the French Society of Radiology, so we really have [Inaudible—Editor] on exchange, so this is a close relationship.

Health committee  If I may comment, with the task force we really have reviewed all the recommendations worldwide—so from the U.S., Europe, China—and basically tried to adapt those recommendations to the Canadian realities: how to place our equipment, etc. It's very difficult to say.... Let's use

Health committee  Yes, it's very important, in the sense that in the heat of the COVID-19 crisis, our capacity to operate our unit as before was decreased. For one unit, let's say, we were able to do 80 patients a day. Now we are doing 60 patients a day. We are not sure it will change in the short

Health committee  Thank you, Mike. My name is Gilles Soulez. I'm an interventional radiologist at CHUM hospital. I'm a professor of radiology at the Université de Montréal. I am also vice-president of the Canadian Association of Radiologists. Thank you for listening to us on this very important t

Health committee  Okay, sorry about that. As you know, measures related to COVID-19 postponed diagnostic imaging for hundreds of thousands of Canadians, resulting in a 50% reduction in medical imaging services across the country. On top of that, non-urgent cancer screening was suspended. This has