Canadian Quality and Patient Safety Framework for Health Services: Communications Toolkit

The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) and Health Standards Organization (HSO), with the dedicated support of hundreds of stakeholders across Canada, recognized the need for a greater commitment to quality and safety improvement. We are pleased to share the Canadian Quality and Patient Safety Framework for Health Services, the first of its kind in Canada. By committing to improving quality and patient safety, we can achieve better health care for all.

Be sure to take full advantage of all the communications tools and resources in this package:

Five Goals to Align Canada on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

This people-centred framework defines five goal areas designed to drive improvement and to align Canadian legislation, regulations, standards, organizational policies, and public engagement on patient safety and quality improvement.

Goal 1 | People-Centred Care

People using health services are equal partners in planning, developing, and monitoring care to make sure it meets ...

IFIC Scotland Webinar: Digitally enabled Care Pathways. Integrated Care Matters

The International Foundation for Integrated Care’s report, Realising the true value of integrated care describes the steps we must take to create a radically different future beyond COVID-19. The report is a powerful call to reset our compass to a new reality based on solidarity and collaboration for population health.

IFIC Scotland and partners explore this new future in series 5 of their Integrated Care Matters webinars. Guest panelists, members of IFICs international Special Interest Groups, will share their experiences and insights and challenge us to design a better future that improves lives and opportunities for all. 

The final webinar of 2020 in the Integrated Care Matters series 5 will discuss digitally enabled care pathways. All who register will receive links to the recordings and topic resources.

Additional information and guest panelists

Benefit design: the perspective from health financing policy

Given the central importance of public financing to make progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), government policy on benefit design, including both service entitlements and conditions of access, significantly influences health system performance. Benefit design considers how all public funds are used and should be based on evidence and developed through a systematic process involving key stakeholders. Reducing uncertainty over entitlements and conditions of access, in particular co-payments, both reduces barriers to accessing services and improves financial protection. Finally, aligning benefit design with a range of health financing policies, as well as service with delivery objectives, provides a powerful way through which policy makers can drive positive change in their health systems.

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