version française printNovember 2005  
ACCELERATING
CHANGE
Councillor Questions and Answers
Jean-Guy Finn talks about the growing importance of outcomes in health care. FULL STORY

Coming Fall 2006
The Health Council will release a comprehensive report on health outcomes. Copies in English and French will be available for downloading at the Council website www.healthcouncilcanada.ca.

New background papers available
The Health Council of Canada has produced two background documents related to wait times. Benchmarks for Wait Times is available now and Ten Steps to a Common Framework for Reporting on Wait Times will be available after November 24th. Please visit the Council website (French).




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Editor: Paul Cantin
Writer: Shirley Hawkins

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From The Chair: Quality should be job #1
While we are grappling with the question of accessing care, here's another topic that should be of equally grave concern: What is the quality of the health care we are accessing? For all the money and resources our governments have invested in the health care system, are Canadians getting healthier? FULL STORY

Measuring for better outcomes
Health care organizations seem to be borrowing an adage adopted by the business community: You can't manage what you can't measure. FULL STORY

Who's who in health quality?
Here's a primer on some of the new Canadian players in health outcomes and quality assurance FULL STORY

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