Hallway Maternity

In Canada we not only have long delays in our public health care delivery system for operative procedures like joint replacements and life threatening coronary artery bypasses, but even for diagnostic procedures like MRI's and CT scans. As a result a new branch of Emergency Medicine has evolved called hallway Medicine.medicine
Governments have tried to resolve these expanding problems by introducing between the doctor and their patients bureaucracies like the Regional Health Authorities. It would seem that rather than solving these problems , these agencies -or should I say- these health authorities, may in fact be responsible for expanding these problems and even have the potential for creating new ones. For example by closing maternity wards at several peripheral hospitals Winnipeg may soon be adding another branch to their emergency wards called hallway maternity- if there are " no beds at the inn " i.e on the maternity wards.
Rather than expanding their "authoritarian " -role- in patient care, these regional authorities should actually be reducing their involvement so that the patient/doctor relationship in the management of a medical problem is restored.