Healthcare policy research and translation. Peer reviewed. For health system policy makers, decision makers, academics and students. Authors come from a broad range of disciplines including healthcare, social sciences, humanities, ethics, law, management sciences, and knowledge translation. Average time to initial decision is two to three weeks. Average time to first review is 12 weeks (due to pandemic conditions). Edited by Dr. Jason Sutherland, Professor, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Healthcare Policy Call for Abstracts: Contemporaneous Policy Issues in Canadian Surgery

Surgery is a critically important component of Canada's healthcare delivery systems - representing about one-half of all inpatient and outpatient care in Canadian hospitals and a significant amount of government spending. Yet, there has been too little focus on the policy issues associated with surgical care in Canada even though access to surgery appears in the popular media on an almost-daily basis.

To reflect the importance of surgery in the Canadian healthcare landscape, the Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Policy is calling for a special issue in contemporaneous Canadian surgical policy. For more information click here.