Dear Class of 2020
The future of healthcare is defined not by a linear trajectory of “progress,” but by a series of competing tensions that our decision-makers will need to navigate. These tensions can ...
Challenging the Orthodoxies of Health System Design and Management
As healthcare leaders, we see firsthand the multiple challenges health systems face in this country. From reorienting services around patients and finding ways to address waitlists, to optimizing use of ...
“Nothing About Us Without Us”: Taking Action on Indigenous Health
The inequities in the health of First Nations, Inuit and Métis are well-known and long-standing. They are built on Canada’s colonial past, and fed by the on-going resistance to reconcile ...
Oral Presentation to the Standing Committee of the Legislative Assembly on Bill 41
The government has created a closed loop system. It creates the policy, it delivers the services, it manages the daily oversight, it audits itself, it eliminates any appeal mechanism and ...
Emotional Courage: Reversing Gravitational Pulls That Subvert Real System Change
Why it is difficult to have performance improvement changes in healthcare notwithstanding the availability of financial firepower, requisite skills, influence and determination? The answer is a know-do gap ~ the ...
Project Management Skills At The Point of Care Can Empower Staff and Drive Change
At any given time in healthcare organizations point of care clinicians are working on quality improvement projects. Project management skills can help immensely.
Harnessing Simple Rules for System Thinking in Healthcare Transformation
The author cites three problems when stressing the importance of building innovation on an evidence foundation for health system improvements.
Why do we need a National Seniors Strategy? Because it’s 2016
Five million Canadians over 65 now represent 16 per cent of our overall population, but that number is expected to double over the next two decades. Many experts also agree ...
The Informal Chat May Not Be Enough
A Chief of Staff is told by a nursing supervisor that one of the senior physicians is making inappropriate comments about the appearance of some of the nurses on his ...
Healthcare is 24/7
Like fires, emergencies, and criminal activities, illnesses and injuries occur independently of the clock and calendar. They have to be dealt with 24/7, 365 days a year. Sadly, that fact ...
