External Resources
Reports
January, 2011
The King’s Fund, Briefing, Health and Social Care Bill
Read PDF and see other King’s Fund Publications
February 2010
Helping Patients Help Themselves: Are Canadians with Chronic Conditions Getting the Support They Need to Manage Their Health?
(Health Council of Canada, January 2010)
This Health Council of Canada bulletin is based on the 2008 Canadian Survey of Experiences with Primary Health Care, which measured the quality of health care as reported by Canadian patients, including those with seven common chronic conditions.
November 2009
The Human Factor:
How transforming healthcare to involve
the public can save money and save lives
National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts,
Laura Bunt and Michael Harris.
Oct 15, 2009
Saskatchewan's Patient First Review report
Patient-Centered Care: An Introduction to What It Is and How to Achieve It
by Steven Lewis, Access Consulting Ltd.
Making Patient Centered
Care Real:
The Road to Implementation
by Steven Lewis,
Access Consulting Ltd.
Vol 12, No.4, 2009
Increasing Value for Money in the Canadian Healthcare System: New Findings on the Contribution of Primary Care Services
Healthcare Quarterly, 12(4) 2009: 30-42,
Marcus J. Hollander, Helena Kadlec, Ramsay Hamdi and Angela Tessaro
September 2009
Does improving quality save money? A review of evidence of which improvements to quality reduce costs to health service providers
The Health Foundation, UK, Sept. 2009
July 13, 2009
Understanding What Matters: a guide to using patient feedback to transform services,
NHS, England, May 2009
July 13, 2009
Monitor, 2009 Report on Ontario's Health System,
Ontario Health Quality Council
May 19th, 2009
Working and Looking after Mom and Dad, The Face of Caregiving in Canada, Canadian Policy Research Network (CPRN), March 2009.
May 19, 2009
Engaging Patients in their Health: How the NHS needs to change, Kings Fund (2008).
March 6, 2009
Working and Looking after Mom and Dad: The Face of Caregiving in Canada (CPRN, March 5, 2009) by Linda Duxbury, Chris Higgins, Bonnie Schroeder.
Read the highlights summary, executive summary or full report.
February 15, 2009
Read Professor Denis Protti's Longwoods' review of High Performing Healthcare Systems – Delivering Quality by Design.
February 15, 2009
Read the following King's Fund article by John Appleby: PROMs: Counting what matters most to patients.
December 9, 2008
Seeing the person in the patient (Joanna
Goodrich, Jocelyn Cornwell)
(The Kings Fund publication)
Read Joanna
Goodrich and Jocelyn Cornwell's bios.
September 8, 2008
Local Health Integration Network / Health Service Provider Governance Resource and Toolkit for Voluntary Integration Initiatives.
Health System Organization and Governance in Canada and Australia: A Comparison of Historical Developments, Recent Policy Changes and Future Implications
by Donald J. Philippon and Jeffrey Braithwaite.
Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé, 4(1) 2008: e168-e186
February 2008
Report of the Manitoba Regional Health Authority External Review Committee.
by Dr. Jerry
Gray (chair), Tom Closson and Shirley Delaquis.
May 2007
Understanding LHINs: A Review of the Health System Integration Act and the Integrated Health Services Plan
By Komal Bhasin and A. Paul Williams.
For more information and related reports about community care, please visit the CRNCC website.
Presentations
May 2, 2008
International Collaboration and Innovation in Citizen Engagment in the Andalusia health system
by Pablo Rivero, Senior Advisor, Health Innovation, Calgary Health Region and former DM Health Innovation, Andalusia, Spain.
presented at The Change Foundation.
