Roadmap For Reform Can Save Canadian Healthcare: A General Consensus View
Posted on June 16, 2023 in Health Debates
Source: CDHowe.org — Authors: David Walker and David Jones, Don Drummond, Duncan Sinclair
CDHowe.org – media-release
June 15, 2023. Don Drummond, Duncan Sinclair, David Walker and David Jones
Canadian healthcare should address its failures and challenges with a roadmap of reform, as laid out in a new paper released by the C.D. Howe Institute that reflects a general consensus of the authors and 23 expert reviewers.
In “Roadmap for Reform: A Consensus View of the Viable Options Ahead for Canada’s Healthcare System,” authors Don Drummond, Duncan Sinclair, David Walker and David Jones present a Roadmap that addresses the fundamental questions of why previous attempts at reform have failed, and offers solutions to design a more effective reform process.
“The timing is right,” explain the authors. “With the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and especially now the widespread frustrations Canadians have in accessing primary care and with long wait times for many health services, including emergencies, people’s one-time confidence in their publicly funded (perceived to be free) health services is badly shaken.”
The Roadmap lays out a comprehensive 13-step plan, covering both the short and long terms that take us to the destination of better health for more Canadians with better access to high-quality healthcare:
- Better Data Collection, Analysis and Reporting
- Health Workforce Planning
- Team-based Health Service Models
- Expanding Scopes of Practice
- Changed Models of Professional Recompense and Institutional Funding
- Regional Health Bodies with Global Budgets
- Redefining Long-Term Care
- Digital Health Services and Solutions Transformation
- Scopes of Sites of Healthcare
- Improved Accessibility to Reduce Health Inequalities
- Greater Emphasis on Health Promotion and the Avoidance of Ill-Health
- Careful Assessment of Public and Private Funding
- Considering the Breadth of Coverage of Universal Healthcare
“All of this and more will be hard to do,” the authors clarify. “But the longer we delay the harder change will be.”
For more information contact: Don Drummond, Stauffer-Dunning Fellow, School of Public Policy Studies, Queen’s University; Duncan Sinclair, Emeritus Professor of Physiology, Queen’s University; David Walker, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Policy Studies, Queen’s Health Sciences; David Jones, Policy Analyst and Economist, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto; and Gillian Campbell, Communications Officer, C.D. Howe Institute, 416-479-9520, gcampbell@cdhowe.org
The C.D. Howe Institute is an independent not-for-profit research institute whose mission is to raise living standards by fostering economically sound public policies. Widely considered to be Canada’s most influential think tank, the Institute is a trusted source of essential policy intelligence, distinguished by research that is nonpartisan, evidence-based and subject to definitive expert review.
https://www.cdhowe.org/media-release/roadmap-reform-can-save-canadian-healthcare-general-consensus-view
Tags: Health, mental Health, participation, standard of living
This entry was posted on Friday, June 16th, 2023 at 3:47 pm and is filed under Health Debates. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
Recent Comments