Leadership “inaction” or Leadership “in Action”—The Change Dilemma
The old adage that everyone wants change but no one wants to change is alive and well in Canadian healthcare. Governments call for transformation, yet are not willing to transform ...
Improving Population Health and Reducing Healthcare Expenditures in Canada
The challenges to healthcare in Canada are well known: non-sustainable increases in expenditures which are eroding our capacity to address other pressing societal needs and a growing burden of chronic ...
The Leadership Imperative: Champion Change to Drive System-Wide Improvement
Being trusted is a precious attribute. How trusted are we by those we serve that we have a plan and will execute the changes needed to improve and modernize our ...
What’s Old is New Again
The future of healthcare will increasingly be driven by advancements in technology; allowing patients to visit healthcare providers from their own home. Patients able to manage their own health information ...
Dear Class of 2020
The future of healthcare is defined not by a linear trajectory of “progress,” but by a series of competing tensions that our decision-makers will need to navigate. These tensions can ...
Challenging the Orthodoxies of Health System Design and Management
As healthcare leaders, we see firsthand the multiple challenges health systems face in this country. From reorienting services around patients and finding ways to address waitlists, to optimizing use of ...
“Nothing About Us Without Us”: Taking Action on Indigenous Health
The inequities in the health of First Nations, Inuit and Métis are well-known and long-standing. They are built on Canada’s colonial past, and fed by the on-going resistance to reconcile ...
Oral Presentation to the Standing Committee of the Legislative Assembly on Bill 41
The government has created a closed loop system. It creates the policy, it delivers the services, it manages the daily oversight, it audits itself, it eliminates any appeal mechanism and ...
Emotional Courage: Reversing Gravitational Pulls That Subvert Real System Change
Why it is difficult to have performance improvement changes in healthcare notwithstanding the availability of financial firepower, requisite skills, influence and determination? The answer is a know-do gap ~ the ...
Project Management Skills At The Point of Care Can Empower Staff and Drive Change
At any given time in healthcare organizations point of care clinicians are working on quality improvement projects. Project management skills can help immensely.
