Well, when the full Canadian Press story on hospital funding came out this morning, Health Minister Deb Matthews was cited as claiming hospital funding went up last year by 5.6%.
That's an awful lot more than previously reported.
The Accountability Agreements the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care signed with the Local Health Integration Networks set out an increase of $429 million (from $13.896 billion to $14.325 billion). That's an increase of only 3.08%. (For the 2008/9 and 2009/10 Accountability Agreements see here and here, pages 43 and 48.)
If correct, that's an additional funding increase of 2.52% -- or $350 million.
So, was the Minister misquoted, did she get her figures wrong, or did some extra money role in?
And if the latter, should we expect a similar bump up in funding this year as well?
dallan@cupe.ca
That's an awful lot more than previously reported.
The Accountability Agreements the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care signed with the Local Health Integration Networks set out an increase of $429 million (from $13.896 billion to $14.325 billion). That's an increase of only 3.08%. (For the 2008/9 and 2009/10 Accountability Agreements see here and here, pages 43 and 48.)
If correct, that's an additional funding increase of 2.52% -- or $350 million.
So, was the Minister misquoted, did she get her figures wrong, or did some extra money role in?
And if the latter, should we expect a similar bump up in funding this year as well?
dallan@cupe.ca
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