National Perspectives on Patient Safety: Ten Years Later
In early 2014, Longwoods Publishing convened a roundtable discussion on the subject of patient safety to get the perspectives of some of the leading healthcare organizations across Canada.
Governance, Policy and System-Level Efforts to Support Safer Healthcare
This paper provides an overview of some key changes in the past decade across Canada in the policy, programs and governance and leadership developed to support safer healthcare.
Increasing Interest and Demand? Is Our System Well-Enough Prepared for Policy Change?
The author calls for planning well ahead for changes in policy to provide optimal, ethical and safe approaches to the offering of services around assisted death as an option for ...
Inadequate Performance Measures Affecting Practices, Organizations and Outcomes of Ontario’s Family Health Teams
In this study the authors asked: What healthcare practices and organizational structures are encouraged by the FHT model? Results suggest that unintended consequences of performance measures may be posing challenges ...
Mind the Gap: Governance and Health Workforce Outcomes
Key messages from the report are that: (1) leadership, communication and engagement are crucial to workforce change; (2) workforce outcomes need to be considered in conjunction with patient outcomes; and ...
Accountability in the UK Healthcare System: An Overview
This commentary describes how the new organizational structures have challenged the traditional centralized accountability structures by creating a more dispersed system of governance for local healthcare commissioners.
Thinking about Accountability
Accountability is a key component of healthcare reforms, in Canada and internationally, but there is increasing recognition that one size does not fit all. A more nuanced understanding begins with ...
A Road Map to Building Ethics Capacity in the Home and Community Care and Support Services Sector
The authors introduce the Community Ethics Network (CEN), a replicable network of home and community care agencies in the Greater Toronto Area.
Diffusion of Personal Health Information Services: Self-Determining and Empowering Practices for Manitoba Inuit
The author describes findings from research conducted into culturally safe practices for communicating personal health information services related to a provincial integrated electronic health record.
Is Public Health Ready to Participate in the Transformation of the Healthcare System?
To guide the significant changes required in Canadian healthcare, the authors advocate for transforming the primary care system into a community-based primary healthcare (CBPH) system. They discuss, in particular, the ...