Upcoming Speakers
Michael Decter, Former Ontario Deputy Minister of Health, Mike McCarthy, Canadian Patient Advocate, Healthcare Consultant, and Expert in Navigating Complex Health Systems and Moderator: Shelley Ambrose, Publisher, Journalist, Producer, and Executive
Canada’s healthcare system is built on principles of universality and access, yet many patients and families experience delays, confusion, barriers and frustration when trying to secure the care they need.
In this timely conversation, Michael Decter and Mike McCarthy draw on decades of experience from inside the system and on the front lines of advocacy to explore what navigating healthcare actually looks like in practice.
Based on their new book, The Canadian Health Care Guerrilla Handbook: How to Fight for What You Need, this discussion will examine why persistence, strategy and informed advocacy often matter as much as policy; what healthcare leaders and institutions can learn from patient experiences; and how Canadians can better understand the system they rely on.
This session will offer practical insights, compelling real-world stories and thoughtful discussion for healthcare leaders, administrators, policymakers and providers.
Book: The Canadian Health Care Guerrilla Handbook: How to Fight for What You Need
A practical survival guide for navigating Canada’s healthcare system, offering real stories, strategies and tools for patients and families facing delays, denials, and barriers to care.
Book Sales Information
Copies of The Canadian Health Care Guerrilla Handbook will be available for purchase onsite before and after the event.
Payment: Cash / Debit / Credit Card accepted.
And our Sponsoring Host
Longwoods Breakfast Series:
Briefings from and for Healthcare Leaders
Each Longwoods Breakfast Series is a year of healthcare learning briefings. Each season we provide monthly educational sessions that provide invited leaders in healthcare the opportunity to share new ideas, policies and/or best practices with colleagues. Our speakers are C-level executives, notable researchers, cabinet ministers, deputies, or leaders from the academic community. Currently these online briefings are 45 minutes long, concise and to the point. A full web version may be made available on Longwoods.com after the live presentation.
The live sessions are freely available to HealthcareBoard members. Please click here to learn more about becoming a member.
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Individual members must sign-in to their Longwoods’ account and then register.
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Institutional and commercial members must make sure they are signed out of their institutional account and signed in as an individual and then register. When registering they will see their institution listed in the drop down menu.
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Non-members can still register for a small fee. If you are a public healthcare administrator, health service provider, researcher, and a policy administrator you may create a longwoods.com online account and while registering for the event you will be prompted to pay the non-member rate.
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